Will he be cremated?
THESE PEOPLE REALLY ARE STUPID!
McCain requested Obama and George W. Bush deliver eulogies at funeral
John McCain requested that former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush deliver eulogies at his funeral, CBS News has confirmed. McCain, who had been suffering from an aggressive form of brain cancer, died Saturday at the age of 81 at home in Arizona. Both Obama and Bush will deliver their remarks during a service at the National Cathedral.
Former Vice President Joe Biden will speak at a separate service honoring the senator in Arizona.
McCain will later lie in state at the Arizona State Capitol before traveling to DC where his body will lie in state at the U.S. Capitol. The senator asked that he be buried at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland near the grave of a long time friend, something he told Lesley Stahl on "60 Minutes" in September 2017.
"I want– I want– when I leave, that the ceremony is at the Naval Academy. And we just have a couple of people that stand up and say, 'This guy, he served his country,'" McCain said.
Mr. Obama, who defeated McCain in 2008 presidential race, issued a statement shortly after McCain's death saying that "we shared, for all our differences, a fidelity to something higher — the ideals for which generations of Americans and immigrants alike have fought, marched, and sacrificed."
"Few of us have been tested the way John once was, or required to show the kind of courage that he did," Mr. Obama continued. "But all of us can aspire to the courage to put the greater good above our own. At John's best, he showed us what that means. And for that, we are all in his debt."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/john-mccain-funeral-obama-george-w-bush-requested-eulogies/
I saw this post, but didn't notice the earring!?
WTF is going on with that?
Trying to bring awareness or what?
McCain and Ted Kennedy died of the same cancer – exactly 9 years apart
Sen. John McCain died exactly nine years after his friend Sen. Ted Kennedy — and of exactly the same thing.
Kennedy, a Democrat, passed away Aug. 25, 2009 at age 77, after a battle with glioblastoma — the same rare type of brain cancer afflicting McCain, who died Saturday at age 81.
McCain, a Republican, had fondly recalled their friendship despite their ideological differences.
“Ted Kennedy had this unique way of doing hand-to-hand combat on the floor of the Senate,” McCain told CNN following Kennedy’s death.
“As soon as we stopped our speech making, he’d come over and put his arm around you and — and make everybody appreciate that we had our differences politically, but personally, we could be friends and work together as colleagues and friends for the good of the country.”
On Saturday, Kennedy’s widow returned the kind words.
“Getting to know John McCain was one of the great privileges of my life, and I know my late husband Ted felt the same way,” Vicki Kennedy said in a statement.
“Though he and Teddy had different political philosophies and were from different political parties, they both loved this country and loved each other. John McCain was our friend, and I will miss him, profoundly.”
https://nypost.com/2018/08/26/mccain-and-ted-kennedy-died-of-the-same-cancer-exactly-9-years-apart/