Retired Col. George "Bud" Day, a Medal of Honor recipient who spent 5½ years as a POW in Vietnam and was Arizona Sen. John McCain's cellmate, has died. He was 88.
Day was one of the nation's most highly decorated servicemen, receiving the Medal of Honor for escaping his captors for 10 days after the aircraft he was piloting was shot down over North Vietnam. He earned more than 70 medals during service in World War II, Korea and Vietnam.
