Posted on 09/02/2018 6:31:09 AM PDT by C19fan
John McCain is being laid to rest at the U.S. Naval Academy after a five-day procession that served as a final call to arms for a nation he warned could lose its civility and sense of shared purpose.
The private ceremony in Annapolis, Maryland, was as carefully planned as the rest of McCain's farewell tour, which began in Arizona after he died Aug. 25 from brain cancer and stretched to Washington.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Sigh. I have less issue with McCain being buried at Annapolis than I do with Kennedy at Arlington.
McCain may have not been a good pilot, he may or may not have conducted himself appropriately as a POW, but he was a POW, and he did serve.
Personally, his conduct as a Senator is a black mark against him, but...rules are rules I guess.
Good thing there are no cats around...thinking giant litterbox...
And win Bigly he will on the 6th and the 7th will be meltdown and angst worse than in 16'. Keeping the House and the huge wins in the Senate will put this week very very far in the rear view mirror...
Oh and the MA race, Liz Warren vs. Geoff Diehl, that will be the icing on the cake. At somepoint like the Emperor in Japan in WWII, the DNC is going to have to surrender their kamikaze ways after this series of humiliating defeats and pick a new thought process to be relevant and survive in the modern world or they will be like the lone hold out troops they found on the Islands who never gave up 40 yrs later..
Respect for Arlington is probably the only thing that keeps the grass around the grave from turning brown.
Sigh. Probably. But as I have said, I have less of an issue with him as I do for Kennedy, that POS.
Thanks...I am going to check out that link later. I have been looking for that for a while...
Howie Carr on his radio show has a "Death Pool" where people call in and pick who is next not to come down for breakfast. It is moribund, yet delightfully tacky, and slightly funny. However the cheap skate he is, you get a lousy t-shirt if you win. My pick on Howie's show would be She who shall not be named....
Thanks for your service. I kind of agree with you there. My mom and dad are at Arlington together, which is kind of funny for us kids as she is going to be on top forever now...:)
Kennedy being there is indeed disrespectful...
Hauntingly gorgeous. I toured the USNA as a little kid, but don’t remember much.
Underground is the only way he could get lower than his class ranking there.
I was talking about a zombie guard. ;-P
Are his father and grandfather buried there?
It seems strange that he wasn’t buried at Arlington.
Human urine is great for grass.
Haha, same with my folks. Mom was the “First Sergeant” of the family, and Dad was the CO (Army COL/O-6), so it makes sense.
LOL !!
I think there would be a pretty long line of people waiting to piss on that grave.
I leave it up to his fellow POW’s to judge McCain and I leave it at that. They know what he did, and before he died, he did too.
If you look at. my Freep page, you can see Admiral Stockdale there as one of my heroes, and he has been there since I joined FR.
I never did get to shake his hand.
But not everyone can be James Stockdale. But because they can’t be James Stockdale doesn’t mean they have to be men like Edison W. Miller and Walter E. “Gene” Wilber, both men who were accused of openly collaborating with the enemy in exchange for better treatment.
In retrospect, and we knew it after the Korean War, the Code of Conduct was untenable when our men were in the hands of an enemy who had no qualms about administering the rope treatment or simply beating a man to death.
But it was still in force in Vietnam, and in the prisons, everyone knew, most of all Stockdale himself, that nearly every man would break under torture, and that every man had his own breaking point. They made it a policy among themselves to resist as much as they could, and it was understood nobody was going to condemn a man who broke. They were supposed to tell their fellow POWs what they had divulged under torture.
They all knew, as Stockdale himself did, that the shame and regret most (though apparently not all) men would heap on themselves when they broke under torture was worse than any judgement from their fellow POW’s.
Granted, there was one POW who didn’t agree with Stockdale on the modified policy they observed in prison (can’t remember his name) because he thought it gave them permission to break, but...I have to agree with Stockdale.
It is a strange thing to laugh about, but my mom was a hot-tempered Armenian-Italian mix that was sometimes a bit too spicy for my quiet dad...:)
Freegards, fellow Brat!
I fully expect to awaken tomorrow morning to news that the Washington Monument, and the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials have been renamed after John Sidney McCain III.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
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