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Senator McCain cannot raise his arms above his shoulders due to torture from his captors in North Viet-Nam. During captivity, McCain was lifted by the wrists (his wrists were tied together behind his back) until his feet left the ground. His entire body weight was supported by his arms, which in this position, became dislocated at the shoulders.

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Mccain does not have short arms because he was tortured when he was a POW in the Vietnam War. They are just short.

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in 1967 his aircraft was shot down over Vietnam. He was injured in the crash in addition to being tortured by the Vietnamese.

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