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.”
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Hope they installed good drainage..........
re #11 .. shoulda known .. LOL
Thank God not at Arlington. My BIL who deserved it is there.
Swell attempt to portray McCain as a loyal person.
You mean the ground didn’t push him back out?
Thank goodness he’s six feet under, maybe we can finally get on with life.
watch this (foul language alert, though)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgM8fMNXHP0
McCain should have been Swiftboated in 2008.
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.
The Mccain Circus is finally over. Maybe sanity will return.
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!”
ENOUGH!!
“...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.....
“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?
Soooooo...... urinals, trough or just kill the grass.
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.
Wonder how long it will take them to figure how why the sod keeps dying?
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