I'm sorry you will have to educate me on this one, because I seriously do not recall hearing about any napalm dropping before you brought it up just now.
The have the whole story in wiki.
"McCain was almost killed on board
Forrestal on July 29, 1967. While the
air wing was preparing to launch attacks, a
Zuni rocket from an
F-4 Phantom accidentally fired across the carrier's deck.
[86] The rocket struck either McCain's
A-4E Skyhawk or one near it.
[81] The impact ruptured the Skyhawk's fuel tank, which ignited the fuel and knocked two bombs loose.
[87] McCain later said, "I thought my aircraft exploded. Flames were everywhere."
[81] McCain escaped from his jet by climbing out of the cockpit, working himself to the nose of the jet, and jumping off its refueling probe onto the burning deck.
[87] His flight suit caught on fire as he rolled through the flames, but he was able to put it out.
[87] He went to help another pilot trying to escape the fire when the first bomb exploded; McCain was thrown backwards ten feet (three meters)
[88] and suffered minor wounds when struck in the legs and chest by fragments.
[62][81][89] McCain helped crewmen throw unexploded bombs overboard off the hangar deck elevator, then went to
Forrestal's
ready room and with other pilots watched the
ensuing fire and the fire-fighting efforts on the room's
closed-circuit television.
[90] The fire killed 134 sailors, injured scores of others, destroyed at least 20 aircraft, and took 24 hours to control.
[81][91][92] In
Saigon a day after the conflagration, McCain praised the heroism of enlisted men who gave their lives trying to save the pilots on deck,
[88] and told
New York Times reporter
R. W. Apple, Jr., "It's a difficult thing to say. But now that I've seen what the bombs and the napalm did to the people on our ship, I'm not so sure that I want to drop any more of that stuff on North Vietnam."
[93] But such a change of course was unlikely; as McCain added, "I always wanted to be in the Navy. I was born into it and I never really considered another profession. But I always had trouble with the regimentation."
[93]"
Some people would say in his next life Cain will spend time with the people he dropped those bombs on. Up close and person to really get to know them.