I apologize to you and others for posting about McCain when this post was devoted to Aretha. It wasn't meant to be spam, and I apologize again for what I wrote, and its seeming to be spam to you and anyone else that saw it that way. I was not aware at the time that your post was meant to specifically deal with our world losing Aretha. While I didn't read all of the questions listed in your post, I didn't base what I posted on just seeing the picture, and I did read the opening paragraph, which is mainly what I was responding to. I'm a U.S. Army veteran and the POW situation I mentioned has gnawed at my and many veterans' hearts for years - ever since it happened. Those POW/MIA families deserved, (and still deserve), better treatment than that.

I hope you accept this apology, and can understand the pain a lot of people have had to live with because of what I've explained here.