John McCain was John McCain Senate III, born on August 29, 1936 and died last Saturday, August 25, 2018. Not only his political life as a Senate, but his whole life of 81 years, including the years of Vietnam War and his service in the US Navy, points out to the fact that John McCain was a “true American hero”.
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John McCain was the son of a US Navy admiral and consequently did his schooling from the United States Naval Academy, and served in the navy as a ground-attack pilot. After retiring from the navy, John McCain became the representative of Arizona in the US House of Representatives from 1983-87, and then got elected for the US Senate from 1987-2018. In 2008, he was the Republican Party’s nominee for President, and was defeated by Barack Obama.
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According to him, his life of service for the people of the US did not ended with his career in the US navy. It was instead, a start of the second phase of his life of service.
The epithet of “true American hero” fits perfectly on him when we recall his contribution to the US in Vietnam War in 1967, when he was held as a war prisoner and was nearly killed. According to Britannica, “In captivity he endured torture and years of solitary confinement. When his father was named commander of all U.S. forces in the Pacific in 1968, the North Vietnamese, as a propaganda ploy, offered early release to the younger McCain, but he refused unless every American captured before him was also freed. Finally released in 1973, he received a hero’s welcome home as well as numerous service awards, including the Silver Star and the Legion of Merit.”
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The achievements of Senator John McCain forms a long list. So long that it’s not possible to recount them in just one answer of a few words. Right now, the debate in the US Senate is going on about the renaming the Senate in John McCain’s memory, as a tribute.