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Sep 1, 2018 · Sen. John McCain, who died last Saturday at 81, was honored at a Washington National Cathedral memorial service today. It follows a week of tributes. Who spoke: Meghan McCain, Joe Lieberman, Henry ...
Aug 26, 2018 · Senator John McCain of Arizona, who has died aged 81 after suffering from brain cancer, was for many Americans an authentic national hero.The son and grandson of admirals, he was a pilot who, shot ...
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- Godfrey Hodgson
Aug 27, 2018 · McCain’s first brush with death came in July 1967 when, as a navy pilot in the Vietnam war, a missile exploded near his fuel tanks, causing a ship fire that killed 134 troops. Three months later ...
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- David Smith,Paul Owen
Aug 27, 2018 · By 1970, cancer had become the second-leading cause of death in the United States. It still is today, claiming about 600,000 lives a year. In 1971, President Richard Nixon signed the National ...
Aug 26, 2018 · A military veteran pays his respects, as John McCain has discontinued medical treatment for an aggressive form of brain cancer, at the entrance to the McCain ranch complex in Cornville, Ariz., Saturday, Aug. 25, 2018. Arizona Sen. McCain, the war hero who became the GOP’s standard-bearer in the 2008 election, has died. He was 81.
Aug 26, 2018 · John Sidney McCain III was born Aug. 29, 1936, in the Panama Canal Zone and into a family whose military lineage included an ancestor who served as an aide to Gen. George Washington during the ...
Aug 25, 2018 · McCain was a senator for over 30 years. -- John Sidney McCain III, a Vietnam War hero with more than 35 years of public service who became one of the most distinctive figures in modern American ...
