It was a Navy base, and how do you know he was born in Colon. Forged birth records were around before B. Hussein you know, and a quick look shows the "long form" Certificate to be fake, while the abstract is likely also fake.
McCain and his mother, who should know, maintain he was born on the Coco Solo Naval Base. Yes, I know they didn't have a hospital, but so what? In 1936 home births were still common in the US, let alone on US Naval Base. The father in law of the mother to be was an Admiral. The Doctor, and there was one at the Base, *would* make a house call. He probably did so routinely. He had a dispensery to work out of but in those days, birth at home was pretty much the "default". I know that while the hospital I was born in (in '49) was pretty much complete by 1930, their first birth was not until 1942, just 7 years before my own.The other, then smaller, hospital in the town also did not "do births" in the 1930s, AFAIK. And this was in the state capital and second largest city in the state.
Leahy, in the wording of the Senate resolution, states that McCain was born in the Canal Zone. There is an exhibit on the Net which indicates McCain was born in the hospital in Colon. How would you go about confirming one or the other to be true at this point? ... Someone pointed out to me that McCain’s mother, who is still of sound mind, has been emphatic on where she gave birth, and she states it was in the zone at the Naval hospital!