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Refusing early release for the sake of his comrades, he endured five and a half years of confinement and torture. then as now, americans marvelled at the iron will of john mccain. but captivity did not diminish johns sense of calling. or his commitment to mission. as he would later say, i fell in love with my country when i was a prisoner in someone elses. after he made it home, john traded service in the uniform of the united states for service in congress. exchanging the rank of captain for co...

That. thats what he wanted. he wanted to be known as somebody who was independent. he admits he made mistakes. but it is the kind of person i think we should all look at, maybe not politically. if you dont agree with him politically but as a person and say for this guy to have been to see shipmates die and get shot down in vietnam and be rescued for that. stayed five years if vietnam and be one of the first people to go during the lessening of bad tensions between vietnam and the united states. ...

Refusing early release for the sake of his comrades, he endured five and a half years of confinement and torture. then as now, americans marvelled at the iron will of john mccain. but captivity did not diminish johns sense of calling. or his commitment to mission. as he would later say, i fell in love with my country when i was a prisoner in someone elses. and after he made it home, john traded service in the uniform of the united states for service in congress exchanging the rank of captain for...

The indecentsy of this administration and its policies, including i think high on the list is this policy of separating families and the failure to reunite these young children. i mean, were talking about, as i read today, and i think you just mentioned, over 20 children under the age of 5 still being held by the government away from their parents. the number was much larger before. some have been reunited. some are still in captivity, u.s. government captivity, being held away from their parent...

To know their hopes and their fears, get to know their family before you meet them, you get to know how they feel about important things. we talked about everything except captivity and the loss of my family that just occurred, my wife and daughter, the only two things we didnt talk about. but, i found that it wasnt too long into johns duties that jill and i got married. jill is here with me today. five years, i had been a single dad and no man deserves one great love, let alone two. i met jill....

Get to know their family before them, you get to know how they feel about everything important. we talked about everything except captivity and the loss of my family, my wife and daughter which had just occurred. those were the only two things we didnt talk about. but i found it wasnt too long into his duties that jail and i got married. for five years i had been a single dad. and no man deserves one great loves, let alone two. and i met jill who changed my life. she fell in love with him and he...

Constituents leaning up watching the casket move through, holding american flags and signs of well wishes. we see, we do see it in politics. but it is so different from the environment that were seeing now. this tribute and farewell and good wishes for someone like mccain who was a war hero. and i think that is, as you were mentioning before, aside from the political career, which was remarkable in and of itself, and what he was able to accomplish, the fact that he was tortured, spent five and a...

Get to know their family even before you meet them, you get to know how they feel about really important things. we talked about everything except captivity and the loss of my family, which had just occurred. my wife and daughter. only two things we didnt talk about. but i found that it wasnt too long into johns duties that jill and i got married. jill is here with me today. five years i had been a single dad, and no man deserves one great love, let alone two. and i met jill. it changed my life....

He was the guy who could reconcile and help open up relations with vietnam, not only a place that he spent almost six years in captivity but with a president, bill clinton, who he probably disagreed with most of the time but he saw it as an opportunity for vietnam to come out of the shadows and become a good partner for the united states so he said aside any trepidation he might have had to move forward. same with george bush and barack obama. these are two men he battled for over a year to win ...

>> you have been watching a solemn service of the state capitol of arizona, tributes from senator flake, the family, cindy mccain, heading down to the casket. megan is sobbing and the other children, jack and jimmy and the other adult children at first married he had been toddler and could barely remember their father after he returned home after five and a half years of captivity. this is the beginning of the commemoration, private and solemn for the family. the public will be permitted in and ...