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 senators 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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McCain had to be the nominee in 2008.
His own eligibility questions allowed the Kenyanesian Usurper to slide while everyone argued about McCain.
He was a willing Designated Loser.
LOL,
I think I see what you are doing there...
I am going to go against the grain and say that Palin was chosen for VP, knowing it would drive the Hillary voters back into the Obama camp.
Thanks
He was high profile Trump hater...surprised this didn’t go on for the next two weeks...
Thanks
Pretty sure that was the idea and it horrified them when she nearly put them ahead in the race. They were supposed to lose. Palin energized those same voters that Trump later brought out that were sick of the corruption of both parties.
That was when Nicolle Wallace was dispatched to sabotage Palin.
2002 was a very strange time to become a Democrat.
At least he was good enough to tell the voters when he made the change.
Good riddance. -spit-
Yep. McStain should’ve come out...like his good buddy.
McShame on him.
Is the eternal urinal now open?
Sounds like the end chapter of Brokeback Mountain... very gay.
Now that he is in the ground I guess I can really bash him.
John McCain, as far as I can tell, was a man that through family ties was able to go through life making misjudgment after misjudgment, mistake after mistake, crime after crime, yet through his naiveté and alignment with America’s domestic enemies, be regarded and praised as an American Hero and icon.......Ripley’s believe it or not!
I could suffer through another week of not watching the television or listening to the radio.
Buried tandem with Wellstone?
I was thinking about the Palin nomination just the other night. Maybe it was two-fold. Drive the on the fence, liberal-leaning woman away and also drive away some men as well — those who still don’t think women should be allowed to vote, keep ‘em barefoot and pregnant types.
Amen.....I’ve hit the mute button on my remote so much over the past week that I’ve about worn it out.
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