This is a normal judgment for anyone outside the victim-worshiping parts of USA and West Europe. The idea that you'd celebrate being a war prisoner as "heroic" would seem absurd in Russia (gasp!), China, all of Asia, Middle East, Europe historically etc.
What a find by
@JakeSherman - Trump talking about McCain's service in Vietnam during an interview with Dan Rather in 1999!
"He was captured...does being captured make you a war hero? I'm not sure, I don't know."