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Would just go and talk and talk and talk and who he liked and who he didnt like and it was great. >> yes, he says the odds are lo long, but to someone who survived years in torture in solitary confinement nothing seems impossible. >> some people ask why i am running for president of the united states and my wife says its because i received several sharp blows in prison. >> the arizona senator returned from captivity in vietnam says he is unstable, but friend john kerry says hes heard the whisper...

Missing information which includes one jet peeling off into the heavens, fitting tribute to a former naval aviator pow and u.s. senator from arizona. mccains father and grandfather, both of four-star admirals and graduates are buried at arlington national cemetery, not annapolis. just another example of senator mccain doing his own thing. its also the anniversary of the surrender of . mccain may have finished fifth from the bottom in this class, but 25% of them washed out. many points mccains re...

Through five and half years of torture in north vietnam. james mattis was a pallbearer in a statement he said quote - senator john mccain, a man whose name alone provides a better description of a patriot then all of the words in the dictionary definition. everything i love about america is in this man. another one, commander everett alvarez the first u.s. pilot shot down over north vietnam in 1964. the longest prisoner of war in the hanoi hilton suffering over eight years of torture and captivi...

Mccain, man his name alone provides a better description of the patriot than all the words in a dictionarys definition. everything i love about america is written in this man. another pallbearer was a commander everett -- the first u.s. pilot shot down over vietnam in 1964. he was just 26 years old and of mexican american dissent. he was in captivity for north vietnam for over eight years. >> jon: our viewers may know that you are naval academy graduate from 2001. from midshipmen and others, wha...

Here. but when he came out of here, he was stamped with a certain academy dignity, and that honor helped him survive his five and a half years in captivity. in a lot of ways its here behind me where john mccain came to terms with himself, his legacy, his parents, what would be expected of him and what he would offer the country. it started out as a lifetime of service. it was about 20 years ago he decided he wanted to be buried here along the river. hes buried next to a friend of his, chuck lars...

Funeral. and lindsey graham, the senators close friend in the senate. the two of them would travel all over the world together, often with a fellow democrat, trying to bring home the message of bipartisanship. the idea that party stops at the waters edge. and thats where country begins. i have to apologize, we have the helicopter flying above us. you know, richard, at any moment now were expecting this funeral service behind us to wrap-up. they are inside the chapel, and then to go down to the b...

Really see the mark made on him by this institution and this building in ways that he didnt fully understand at the time. he arrived here, class of 58 as a 17-year-old mid shipman. he still had a little resentment when he left. it wasnt nm the captivity in vietnam that he understood the impact that this institution had upon him. this was as you mentioned a private ceremony. we just saw guests filtering out here. there was -- they went down horse drawn carriage, down to his final resting place on...

Be moved. >> so much her fathers daughter. you think about those 5 1/2 years in captivity, the stories we all know about him being tied up and in incredible physical pain. he imparted that grit to his children. you know, and throughout his life, didnt -- wouldnt even show that people around him how much pain he was living in, you know, not being able to comb his hair or put on his jacket but he never let that physical pain show and he didnt complain about it and thats clearly something that he w...

Resilience as a prisoner of war. >> then as now, americans marvelled at the iron will of john mccain but captivity did not diminish johns sense of calling. >> reporter: mccain became the 31st person to lie if state in the capitol rotunda, his 106 mother there to see the outpouring of services and love. services continuing tomorrow. the people who beatth him will eulogize him, then a private burial at the u.s. naval academy next to his classmate and best friend chuck larsen, his wife saying his h...

♪ im victor blackwell live outside washingtons national cathedral, where in just a few hours, friends and family and former colleagues and a grateful nation will say thank you and good-bye to the late senator john mccain. his time spent as a prisoner of war in vietnam helped shape the man, and he became -- and the political policies he supported. john king takes a closer look at the impact of those years in captivity and what they had on the rest of his life. >> reporter: for john mccain, th...