We lost a true American hero this weekend when Senator and war hero John McCain passed away after a long fight with cancer.
A man who waged a five year fight against the army of North Vietnam, and won simply by surviving, who then came home to work to keep America great for the rest of his life.
By comparison, so many others seem so much smaller in stature.
As presidential historian Jon Meacham put it so well yesterday: “John McCain in death is performing the unifying function that the incumbent president is congenitally incapable of performing”
In one more insult from the sitting President, the American flag flying above the White House was returned to it full height after standing at half mast, in honor to Senator McCain, for less than 48 hours. Meacham is right.
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