Drawing Crosses

Factcheck.org did some research into the story that McCain might have plagiarized his story about the guard from a story called "The Gulag Archipelago" by Aleksander Solzhenitsyn. Quite interestingly, Factcheck discovered that the cross-in-the-dirt incident did not appear in the text, but was a personal anecdote by Solzhenitsyn that was repeated through other various sources. The site's final assessment is that there is no way to prove that McCain stole the anecdote or that the incident happened, so it entirely depends on whether or not you believe McCain. Ironically, however, people who remembered the incident from the book seem to be the ones with bad memory...