The Senator from Arizona – John McCain, a previous
Republican presidential nominee and a prisoner of Vietnam War, died on Saturday
at the age of 81.
McCain was diagnosed with brain cancer in July, 2017. He
went for a routine physical checkup which exposed the blood clot near his eye.
Though he got into a surgery to remove that, the doctors concluded that to have
happened because of glioblastoma – a tumor. McCain decided to stop his cancer
treatment the previous week.
The family declared his death on Saturday in a statement. Praises came for him from both current President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama.
Although the disease he had was “very, very serious” as
described by the doctors which they even told “a very poor prognosis”; this all
did not delay McCain from his work in Senate.
In December 2017, he was hospitalized due to a viral
infection and came to Arizona for recovering. He also had a surgery for
intestinal infection in April at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix.
McCain was born on 29th August, 1936 at a US air
base in Panama Canal Zone. He went to a respected US Naval Academy at
Annapolis, Maryland. He was a fighter pilot and did his duty aboard US aircraft
carriers in 60s.
In 1967, Oct 26th McCain had his plane got shot in Northern Vietnam on a bombing mission. He was in their captivity for five and half years during which he frequently got beatings resulting in injuries. In 1973, he got released after his captors thought him of no value.
He first ran for presidential race in 1999 which he lost but
the 2008 presidential elections were quite successful. He won in New Hampshire
and South Carolina.
“After I lost [the
2008 election], I slept like a baby," McCain has joked over the years.
"Sleep two hours, wake up and cry. Sleep two hours, wake up and cry."
The senator has left a wife and seven children, including famous
author and nationwide radio personality Meghan McCain.
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