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McCain wants to be laid to rest at the Naval Academy's cemetery
Daily Mail UK ^ | May 17, 2018 | Marlene Lengthang

Posted on 05/17/2018 11:17:12 AM PDT by COUNTrecount

'I want to take my leave back where it began': John McCain, 81, wants to be laid to rest at the Naval Academy's cemetery beside lifelong friend Chuck Larson who he trained with

In his book The Restless Wave, McCain says he wants to be buried at the US Naval Academy cemetery in Maryland

The 81-year-old says he wants to be buried next to his pal Charles 'Chuck' Larson

The two attended the Naval Academy together, Larson died in 2014

McCain says he wants to go 'back where it began' rather than be buried alongside his father and grandfather in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia The Academy confirmed that McCain has a dedicated plot 'very close' to Larson The Arizona senator is battling in aggressive form of brain cancer John McCain has announced where he wants to be buried - and it's not next to his father and grandfather at Arlington National Cemetery.

Instead the 81-year-old Arizona senator says he wants to be buried next to his best friend Charles 'Chuck' Larson at the Naval Academy's cemetery on the Severn River in Maryland.

McCain trained at the Naval Academy with Larson and detailed in his memoir The Restless Wave that he wants his final resting place to be next to his dear friend who passed away in 2014.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: johnmccain; mccain; restlesswave; strawberries; therestlesswave; usna
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To: SaveFerris

You are correct....there is something weird about it. I don’t recall anyone who was famous talking about their funeral as much as him.


61 posted on 05/17/2018 12:11:37 PM PDT by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
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To: ColdOne

He’s already dead Jim.


62 posted on 05/17/2018 12:14:49 PM PDT by VastRWCon (LARGE PRINT GIVE IT, small print take it away.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Larson was superintendent when I was there. I felt he was better than the one that followed - but I really only met him twice. He had a solid focus on ensuring the academic rigor was maintained. Think he was called back there in the 90s to help clean up some shenanigans just before retiring.

USNA takes very very few for burial due to space though they did build a columbrian while I was there there in 1987.

Could care less where mcstain ends up.


63 posted on 05/17/2018 12:15:30 PM PDT by reed13k
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To: COUNTrecount

Actually, it all began at U.S. Naval Base in the Panamanian Province of Colon, Coco Solo. Like McCain, it too is now a crumbling ghost town.


64 posted on 05/17/2018 12:15:54 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~~Trump 2020~~)
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To: COUNTrecount

Good...Will have to start saving bottles of urine to sell dockside...


65 posted on 05/17/2018 12:16:00 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: Psalm 144

Midshipmen.

K-dets go to them other schools ;-p


66 posted on 05/17/2018 12:16:33 PM PDT by reed13k
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To: COUNTrecount

A plot in Hanoi next to Jane Fonda would be more appropriate


67 posted on 05/17/2018 12:21:22 PM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: COUNTrecount

It would only be fitting. McCain was brain dead at the Naval Academy so if he is laid to rest there when his brain cancer kills his brain permanently no one will notice any difference in his status while at the Academy.


68 posted on 05/17/2018 12:22:20 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: COUNTrecount
'I want to take my leave back where it began'

That's where it should have ENDED -- with McCain FLUNKING OUT. That's what happened to 3 students ABOVE McCain and the 1 student below his grade level. They all were expelled. But Johnny's daddy and grand-daddy were freakin' ADMIRALS -- and so they couldn't have THAT.

Just imagine how many people would still be alive/how much less damage to America would have been wrought had the Academy's brass simply done the right thing and expelled John S. McCain Jr.

69 posted on 05/17/2018 12:25:12 PM PDT by montag813
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To: COUNTrecount

Well, I guess graduating second from last in your Academy class qualifies you for a spot in their cemetery...I guess.


70 posted on 05/17/2018 12:25:26 PM PDT by FrankR (If it wasn't for stupid ideas, the left would have no ideas at all.)
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To: montag813

Sen. McCain is JSM III. His father was JSM Jr.


71 posted on 05/17/2018 12:29:34 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: COUNTrecount

Anything you want John, just DO IT ALREADY!!!!


72 posted on 05/17/2018 12:33:19 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: montag813
McCain doesn't deserve Naval Academy honors. His dust needs to be scattered at Little Big Horn, a fitting place for neo-con, loose-cannons-on-deck (or loose-missiles-on-deck), who play games with the military to suit their own vanity and "glory".


73 posted on 05/17/2018 12:33:52 PM PDT by poconopundit (MAGA... Get the Spirit. Grow your community. Focus on your Life's Work. Empower the Young.)
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To: VastRWCon

I tend to agree. Why hasn’t he been seen in public via TV or pics? He is a media hound like his bud Gramercy. Strange now he won’t show his face for TV time.


74 posted on 05/17/2018 12:40:47 PM PDT by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
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To: COUNTrecount

Frankly while I don’t like McCain even at the Naval Academy, better there than at Arlington by his Father and Grandfather who were real heroes and Honorable Men.

There is a small naval cemetery out in San Francisco, Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno, this is the where Admiral Chester Nimitz along with his friends Admiral’s Ray Spruance, Richmond Turner, Charles Lockwood and their wives are buried. There were all lifelong friends and cadets at the Academy together and made this special arrangement while they were still living. These guys were all class and heroes compared to McCain.


75 posted on 05/17/2018 12:42:11 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: reed13k

I’ll remember that, and thank you. Point stands though!


76 posted on 05/17/2018 12:43:44 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (Ace McCain: The tumor is a rumor but the boot was a hoot.)
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To: dirtymac

I don’t know but McCain finished near the bottom of the Class of ‘58 so it would be fitting that each year McCain grave will be visited by a dozen or so midshipmen sweating out their final grades. The academies are full of rituals like that.


77 posted on 05/17/2018 12:46:44 PM PDT by Tallguy
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To: COUNTrecount
he 81-year-old says he wants to be buried next to his pal Charles 'Chuck' Larson

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

78 posted on 05/17/2018 12:55:25 PM PDT by Mr.Unique (The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
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To: Ancesthntr

you are right
more respect
ok
nearest city landfill


79 posted on 05/17/2018 1:23:12 PM PDT by OldArmy52 (Nazi concentration camps are proof that banning guns works.)
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80 posted on 05/17/2018 1:24:35 PM PDT by HotHunt
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