McCAIN'S CROSS IN THE SAND STORY---PLAGIARIZED

Long story short.

In 1973, a russian author, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, wrote about his time in in the book "The Gulag Archipelago" and relayed exactly the same story.From the book:"As he waited, head down, he felt a presence. Slowly he looked up and saw a skinny old prisoner squat down beside him.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/17/122230/161/...

The man said nothing. Instead, he used a stick to trace in the dirt the sign of the Cross.

The man then got back up and returned to his work.As Solzhenitsyn stared at the Cross drawn in the dirt his entire perspective changed. He knew he was only one man against the all-powerful Soviet empire. Yet he knew there was something greater than the evil he saw in the prison camp, something greater than the Soviet Union. He knew that hope for all people was represented by that simple Cross.

Through the power of the Cross, anything was possible."And here is a nice long excerpt from John McCain's book "Hard Call: The Art of Great Decisions " released in 2005, reprinted in the NY Sun, about what a big fan he is of Alexander Solzhenitsyn writings...http://www.nysun.com/opinion/solzhenitsyn-at-work/83117 /

Edited to add, apparently in 1973 he wrote a very detailed 12,000 word account of his time in Vietnam that was published in US News and world reports and wouldnt you know it, no mention of the cross in the sand...http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/17/15300/5629/...

WOW!!