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Bouts of skin cancer. Yesterday, he passed away. He was surrounded by his family after this hard battle with brain cancer but he fought it so well. There are so many adjectives have been used to describe him. Father, husband, war hero, maverick, political titan, principled is one that stands out. Its fitting flags halfstaff over the u. S. Capital. In the halls of that capitol mccain spent nearly 40 years representing the state of arizona. First a member of the house and representative and then, of course, as a senator. Dana bash is going to treat us now to a look at john mccains distinguished ...

The tributes to come in not just here in the United States but around the world. Hanoi, vietnam, in october 1967, mccain and ten other pilots were shut down by the north vietnamese military. He would spend five and a half years as a prisoner of war there. Today a monument that stands on the spot where his plane went down. This morning, there are flowers and tributes that surround it. Then in washington, the morning is beginning with flags over the white house and u. S. Capital is lowered to half staff of the country he loved so much. Cnns dana bash has a look back right now at john mccains dis...

His Senate Colleagues remember him as a giant in that body. Politically conservative but fiercely principled and independent. His absence in the u. S. Senate this year due to declining health, it was clear a true warrior til the end. He battled an aggressive form of brain cancer first diagnosed in 2017. John mccain served as a u. S. Navy aviator for more than 20 years. Mr. Mccain was shot down over North Vietnam in 1967, captured and held there as a prisoner of war for more than five years. After the war, he returned to politics in the United States. He ran for president of the United States t...