U.S. Senator and 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain has succumbed to brain cancer, four days short of his 82nd birthday. God be with his family and friends.
I am disappointed, but not surprised, that so many apparently perceive McCain’s death as a good occasion for political opportunism.
Whatever McCain’s human foibles, and however visible they might have been, his five-year-long detention and torture by the North Vietnamese is something very few of us can even partially understand. That he emerged from such to continue to serve his country to such a degree is genuinely heroic.
(We throw that word around too much. It’s justified here.)
RIP.
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