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McCain laid to rest at Naval Academy alongside old friend
NY Post ^ | September 2, 2018 | By Marisa Schultz and Laura Italiano

Posted on 09/02/2018 5:22:49 PM PDT by conservative98

John McCain was laid to rest Sunday on a green hill at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, Md. alongside the classmate who was his “wing man” and lifelong friend.

The Vietnam War hero, maverick senator and two-time presidential candidate was bid farewell in a private ceremony beside the Severn River by his closest family members and friends, along with military dignitaries and members of his academy Class of 1958.

The Arizona senator’s final resting place is the cemetery near the fields and classrooms where he and his friend, Admiral Chuck Larson, met as young men six decades ago.

The senator died Aug. 25 from brain cancer at age 81.

A non-conformist to the end, McCain chose to be buried at the academy instead of Arlington National Cemetery with his father and grandfather, both Naval admirals.

“I want to smell the rose-scented breeze and feel the sun on my shoulders,” McCain wrote in his May memoir.

“I want to watch the hawks hunt from the sycamore, and then take my leave bound for a place near my old friend Chuck Larson, in the cemetery on the Severn, back where it began.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Arizona; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: 247mccainonfr; chucklarson; johnmccain; mccain; navalacademy; strawberries
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To: conservative98

Hope they installed good drainage..........


21 posted on 09/02/2018 5:40:40 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: sailor76

re #11 .. shoulda known .. LOL


22 posted on 09/02/2018 5:40:55 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: conservative98

Thank God not at Arlington. My BIL who deserved it is there.


24 posted on 09/02/2018 5:41:49 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: conservative98

Swell attempt to portray McCain as a loyal person.


25 posted on 09/02/2018 5:43:26 PM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: conservative98

You mean the ground didn’t push him back out?


26 posted on 09/02/2018 5:44:58 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: conservative98

Thank goodness he’s six feet under, maybe we can finally get on with life.


27 posted on 09/02/2018 5:49:20 PM PDT by Lucky2 (Trump/Pence 2020)
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To: conservative98

watch this (foul language alert, though)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgM8fMNXHP0


28 posted on 09/02/2018 5:50:42 PM PDT by dontreadthis (A TIMELINE OF TREASON on Profile Page)
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To: wetgundog

McCain should have been Swiftboated in 2008.


29 posted on 09/02/2018 5:54:19 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: tennmountainman
Glad this week of McCain worship is over.

The media is hard at work trying to figure out a way to keep this thing going. Maybe they air a "Best of the John McCain funeral" during the coming week.

30 posted on 09/02/2018 5:54:57 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: conservative98

The Mccain Circus is finally over. Maybe sanity will return.


31 posted on 09/02/2018 5:56:53 PM PDT by puppypusher ( The world is going to the dogs.)
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To: conservative98

I read this on a DM post and wanted to share:

“And the John McVain Funeral-A-Thon 2018 continues... He ARRANGED all these funerals...What an ego.....But I am enjoying the “I survived Funeral-A-Thon 2018” shirts and bumper stickers that are starting to pop up. LOL...Too funny!”


32 posted on 09/02/2018 5:57:07 PM PDT by blondiegoodbadugly
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To: conservative98

ENOUGH!!


33 posted on 09/02/2018 5:57:28 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Moderates/Independents/Non-voters" Are DIMS REALLY who you'd want BACK in POWER?)
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To: GreenHornet

“...The media is hard at work trying to figure out a way to keep this thing going....”

How about ‘Hollywood to produce movie...Life of John McCain, AMERICAN HERO....’

On second thought.....


34 posted on 09/02/2018 5:57:51 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: conservative98

“McCain laid to rest at Naval Academy alongside old friend”

WHY THE HELL would Ho Chi Minh be buried in the US, much less at the US Naval Academy? What the hell is this country becoming?


35 posted on 09/02/2018 5:57:55 PM PDT by BobL (I drive a pick up truck because it makes me feel like a man)
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To: conservative98

36 posted on 09/02/2018 5:58:31 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: A_Former_Democrat
But wait, there's more! 😉
37 posted on 09/02/2018 5:59:30 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Soooooo...... urinals, trough or just kill the grass.


38 posted on 09/02/2018 6:04:39 PM PDT by PittsburghAfterDark (The American media: We do what the Soviet media did without the guns to our head.)
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To: Tuketu

He wasn’t a hero. He sold his comrades out when he was beaten so bad, as long as he was sent to the hospital by his captors. Hero my ass. Stockdale when he was captured and beaten, gave up nothing and earned the respect of his captors.


39 posted on 09/02/2018 6:06:25 PM PDT by max americana (Fired libtard employees 9 consecutive times at every election since 08'. I hope all liberals die.)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

Wonder how long it will take them to figure how why the sod keeps dying?


40 posted on 09/02/2018 6:10:49 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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