Re: [FunBBGroup] John McCain, War Hero, Senator, Presidential Contender, Dies at 81 - The New York Times

 

This is so sad.  I just read up a little on his prisoner of war time.  He suffered, and big time.  He was put in solitary confinement, as a POW, for 2 years.  I can't even fathom..  You are in a foreign country, your captors are keeping you alive only because you are valuable to them because your father is an admiral, but you are barely treated better than a flea.  I just can't imagine.  And yet he was quite moderate, not hating on foreigners because of his experience, and he'd have a better excuse than any of us.  Hopefully his family was prepared.  I suspect they were, with the press release yesterday or day before about him stopping treatment.

Carrie Courter
Happiness is having the best son a mother can ever hope for :)

On Saturday, August 25, 2018, 7:36:49 PM CDT, Natalie Natalieav2@aol.com [FunBBGroup] <FunBBGroup@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Sad!  He was a true hero. 

Natalie

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On Aug 25, 2018, at 8:28 PM, Jeff Nelson JEFFNC1@GMAIL.COM [FunBBGroup] <FunBBGroup@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Not talking politics here. But just wanted to say "Rest In Peace" John McCain. You were a war hero.  You had to endure a lot of pain in your life . 

Jeff 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/25/obituaries/john-mccain-dead.html#click=https://t.co/oWPRrWL6XX

John McCain, War Hero, Senator, Presidential Contender, Dies at 81

Aug. 25, 2018

John S. McCain, the proud naval aviator who climbed from depths of despair as a prisoner of war in Vietnam to pinnacles of power as a Republican congressman and senator from Arizona and a two-time contender for the presidency, died on Saturday at his home in Arizona. He was 81.

According to a statement from his office, Mr. McCain died at 4:28 p.m. local time. He had suffered from a malignant brain tumor, called a glioblastoma, for which he had been treated periodically with radiation and chemotherapy since its discovery in 2017.

Despite his grave condition, he soon made a dramatic appearance in the Senate to cast a thumbs-down vote against his party's drive to repeal the Affordable Care Act. But while he was unable to be in the Senate for a vote on the Republican tax bill in December, his endorsement was crucial, though not decisive, in the Trump administration's lone legislative triumph of the year.

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