[AP/Boston Globe] Steven Stanek - Sen. John McCain, who spent five grueling years as a prisoner of war during Vietnam, met with the families of two captured Israeli soldiers Sunday, sharing his own story of survival and promising to work for their release. Reserve soldiers Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser were captured July 12 by Lebanon's Hizballah in a cross-border raid that ignited a 34-day war. Their captors have not provided any signs that they are still alive.
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