Ex-Pow Buddy Campaigns for Mccain ; Retired Lt. Col. Tom Moe Coordinates the Veterans for Mccain Group in Ohio.

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LANCASTER -- Tom Moe was a 23-year-old Air Force fighter pilot in Vietnam in January 1968 when a bomb fuse malfunctioned and blew up his F-4C jet over enemy territory.

Moe ejected, parachuted into a tree, scampered down and ran from enemy fire. He hid under a log and awaited rescue. Instead, the North Vietnamese soldiers captured him and marched him into hell. That's where he met John McCain. "He was my next-door neighbor," Moe said. Moe, now a 64-year-old retired Air Force colonel, was held for five years in prison camps in Hanoi, where he got to know McCain. Now that McCain is the presumptive Republican nominee for president, Moe's friendship with the senator from Arizona -- forged in a POW camp -- is being extended to the campaign trail.

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Ex-Pow Buddy Campaigns for Mccain ; Retired Lt. Col. Tom Moe Coordinates the Veterans for Mccain Group in Ohio.

Eighteen months ago, Moe agr...

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