John McCain's said in his acceptance speech that he was BROKEN by his interrogators. Is that a hero ?

Do americans define a hero as somebody that is BROKEN by his interrogators ?. I'm Irish and are defintion of a hero is alot different. Many members of the IRA and the nationalist community were torturted by the British army while in detention. The Irish nationalist view of a hero is never to break or be beaten down by your captors. To BREAK was a sign of weakness and a lack of courage and bravery. In 1981 Ten hunger strikers gave up their lives on a principal of honour and dignity. They refused to be criminalised by British authorities and insisted on been treated as POW's. Ten men freely gave up their lives on the principal of POW ( prisoner of war) status . The British wanted to take it away their POW status that they previously had and criminalise them in an effort to win a propaganda coup. Ten men not only stood tall throughout interogation and torture at the hands of the Brithish authorities but gave their lives up freely on a point of principal. The first man to die was Bobby Sands MP who was an elected member of parliament at Westminister ( English Parliament) and nine others followed. In Ireland, that is what we call bravery and courage. Thats what we call a hero. Gerry Adams was interogated and never broke and thousands of other Irish Republicans who never broke while been tortured. Nelson mandela in my eyes is what i would define as a hero. He was tortured and never broke or gave in to his captors and carried himself with dignity. Americans, do you think that a person who breaks while been tortured is a hero ??. Before you answer, some of the torture methods used by the British was as follows. Electrical shocks to the testicles, drowning in water, told their family would be killed, sleep deprivation, made stand up and stay awake for 48 hours at a time and if you fell down or tried to go to sleep, you were beaten severly, cigaretts burns, nails pulled out of their fingers and the list goes on and on and on.