And Kathleen, his sister, worked for the Red Cross in the UK during the war; leaving her home in the US to do so.

Of the three front-running candidates, two were eligible for combat service and of those, only one, John McCain has seen battle. On his twenty-third bombing mission he was shot down by North Vietnamese forces and captured. He stayed in the infamous Hanoi Hilton from 1967 to 1973 as a POW. For his service and refusal to break under questioning, McCain was awarded the Silver Star, the fifth highest ranking naval medal.