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Senator McCain Buried at US Naval Academy

by Ken Bredemeier

   Senator John McCain of Arizona was buried Sunday at his college alma
   mater, the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, after five days
   of remembrances of him as a war hero, senior statesman to the world and
   American patriot.

   McCain's final resting place was next to his longtime friend and
   academy classmate, Admiral Chuck Larson, who died in 2014.

   McCain, a former aviator who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam for more
   than five years in the 1960s, made one of his last public appearances
   at the academy last October, when he told the student body the school
   prepared him for challenges he had yet to confront.

   "I would discover that a sense of honor had been imparted to me here
   that would speak to me in the darkest hours," he said. "And so I came
   back, again and again, to the place where I learned to dread dishonor."