Many people know the story of John McCain's seven-year Veitnam P.O.W. experience in which he was tortured and refused to leave without his fellow soldiers. However, few know of a marriage that survived those seven years only to fall apart upon his return to the U.S.  "After McCain's dramatic homecoming from Vietnam, the couple grew apart. Their marriage began disintegrating while McCain was stationed in Jacksonville" (link). Within a few years of his return, McCain and his wife Carol had separated.

In 1979, five years after his rehabilitation, McCain filed for divorce, and the divorce was confirmed the following year. The settlement included two houses for Carol (link).

A month after the divorce was finalized, McCain married his current wife, Cindy. Because McCain had gotten married so shortly after his divorce, this raised suspicions that McCain became involved with Cindy before the divorce had been finalized, something to which McCain admitted to.

John McCain once said of this divorce, "Marriages can be hard to recover after great time and distance have separated a husband and wife. We are different people when we reunite....But my marriage's collapse was attributable to my own selfishness and immaturity more than it was to Vietnam, and I cannot escape blame by pointing a finger at the war. The blame was entirely mine." (link)

A Huffington Post article included recent quotes from McCain's ex wife: "Carol insists she remains on good terms with her exhusband, who agreed as part of their divorce settlement to pay her medical costs for life. 'I have no bitterness,' she says" (link). "'My marriage ended because John McCain didn't want to be 40, he wanted to be 25. You know that happens...it just does.'"

Could you ever vote for a candidate who openly had an affair?