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Posted 8/26/2018 1:05 AM (GMT 0)
We lost a good one today.
Posted 8/26/2018 1:48 AM (GMT 0)
They don't make them like that anymore.
Posted 8/26/2018 2:00 AM (GMT 0)
Very sad. A great loss for our nation. He was more Patriot, than Politician
Posted 8/26/2018 2:39 AM (GMT 0)
RIP
Posted 8/26/2018 3:23 AM (GMT 0)
Didn't always agree with. Always had respect for him.

Can you imagine 100 senators like McCain in the Senate today? All focused on country over matters?
Posted 8/26/2018 1:26 PM (GMT 0)
Amen to these. Like Ulysses at the end of Tennyson’s poem, go peacefully on fair winds and following seas,
Hero.
Posted 8/26/2018 1:55 PM (GMT 0)
Proud to have had him as my Arizona Senator all these years.
Posted 8/26/2018 2:45 PM (GMT 0)
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Post Edited By Moderator (Pratoman) : 8/26/2018 9:35:07 AM (GMT-6)

Posted 8/26/2018 3:32 PM (GMT 0)
Let’s keep political opinions out of this thread.

Fauntleroy, I deleted your comment
Posted 8/26/2018 3:53 PM (GMT 0)

Pratoman said...
Let’s keep political opinions out of this thread.

Fauntleroy, I deleted your comment

Agreed, I was not a fan of McCain politically, but RIP.... blessings and condolences to his family! yeah
Posted 8/26/2018 4:05 PM (GMT 0)
I will never forget the "thumb down" from a man that put our country first! RIP and know that you will always be remembered by all "three" sides of the isle.
Posted 8/26/2018 4:08 PM (GMT 0)
Truly a fine man.
High integrity. Strong sense of ethics.

Mel
Posted 8/26/2018 6:17 PM (GMT 0)
Captain and Senator John McCain:

Thank you, sir.

/www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eYAYBIU4g0
Posted 8/26/2018 6:19 PM (GMT 0)
A patriot, a hero and a lion of the Senate. He will be missed. RIP.

Jim
Posted 8/26/2018 6:27 PM (GMT 0)
never once doubted that McCain loved our country. Happy Trails, Senator!
Posted 8/26/2018 6:31 PM (GMT 0)
founded in the greatest generation...forged in the new...presented to the ageless..ages...that which is deepest...finest...truest...sparks of coal...keeper of light...see you soon...as lifted...swoons the night cry
Posted 8/27/2018 12:08 AM (GMT 0)
as a fellow Navy Vietnam vet, I respect the man fully. 5 1/2 years in the Hanoi Hilton would break the best of them
Posted 8/27/2018 12:21 AM (GMT 0)
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on that sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas
Posted 8/27/2018 7:26 AM (GMT 0)
Because this forum is apolitical, my tribute to John McCain is the tremendous courage he showed by enduring his brutalizing imprisonment as a POW.

What James Stockdale, another POW, said applies also to John McCain:

"I never lost faith in the end of the story, I never doubted not only that I would get out, but also that I would prevail in the end and turn the experience into the defining event of my life, which, in retrospect, I would not trade.

"This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be."

Tran Trong Duyet, the commandant of the Hoa Lo POW camp in Hanoi where McCain was held, claimed in 2008 that no prisoners were ever tortured. They were inhumanly tortured, and are heroes, no matter what anyone says, in public or in private, to the contrary.

Rest in Peace, John McCain
Posted 8/27/2018 8:35 AM (GMT 0)
RIP Shipmate!
Posted 8/27/2018 1:47 PM (GMT 0)
Served his country with more integrity than most. Though I disagreed with many of his positions, I never doubted for a second he loved this country.

Thank you for your service and rest in peace.
Posted 8/27/2018 5:30 PM (GMT 0)
Though I didn't share many of his views I often think of people as those I would or wouldn't want to share a lifeboat with. Mr. McCain always passed my lifeboat test. RIP.
Posted 8/28/2018 6:18 PM (GMT 0)

browntrout said...
I will never forget the "thumb down" from a man that put our country first! RIP and know that you will always be remembered by all "three" sides of the isle.

Memorable moment in history, browntrout.

I will never forget the “no, ma’am” moment which showed the strength of his true character. Without hesitation he said “no thank you” to the door held open (NO POLITICS - comment removed)
His post-diagnosis speech on the Senate floor last summer was also a memorable moment in history…rebuking both sides for failure to follow “regular order.” “We’re getting nothing done,” he exclaimed. Not afraid to say the king has no clothes; truth to power.

I didn’t agree with many of his policy positions, yet I find myself wishing we had more like him.

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