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Final farewells to John McCain as former US senator lies in state

A private ceremony will be held this morning at the Arizona State Capitol Museum rotunda, where McCain will lie in state.

FAMILY, FRIENDS AND constituents will gather today at Arizona’s Capitol to pay their respects to Sen John McCain, the first of two days of services here before he departs the state he has represented since the 1980s.

A private ceremony will be held this morning at the Arizona State Capitol Museum rotunda, where McCain will lie in state.

That ceremony will include remarks from Gov Doug Ducey and former US Sen Jon Kyl, plus a benediction from Sen Jeff Flake.

It will also mark the first appearance of McCain’s family members since the longtime Arizona senator died of brain cancer on Saturday at age 81.

Later that afternoon, the Capitol will be open to members of the public who want to pay their respects. The viewing will go on as long as people are waiting in line, Rick Davis, McCain’s former presidential campaign manager, said Monday.

For some Arizona residents, McCain has been a political fixture in the state for their entire lives. He took office in Arizona in the early 1980s, first as a congressman and then as a senator in the seat once held by Sen Barry Goldwater.

Crews spent the past several days prepping the Capitol for the visitors, hauling in chairs, cleaning up the building and assembling dozens of flags. McCain is the third person to lie in state in the rotunda in the last 40 years; others were Arizona State Senator Marilyn Jarrett in 2006 and Olympic gold medalist Jesse Owens, a Tucson resident, in 1980.

Thursday morning will see a procession through Phoenix on the way to a memorial service at North Phoenix Baptist Church, with the public invited to line the route along Interstate 17.

The memorial service will see multiple tributes, readings and musical performances, including a tribute from Vice President Joe Biden. Musical choices include a performance of “Amazing Grace” by the Brophy Student Ensemble and a recessional to “My Way” by Frank Sinatra.

From there, McCain will depart Arizona for the last time from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.

Another viewing will be at the US Capitol on Friday, with a final memorial service at the Washington National Cathedral.

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    Mute Philip Morgan
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    Aug 29th 2018, 7:41 AM

    Wouldn’t agree with his politics but when he often stopped personal attacks against Obama during the election campaign stating that he was a decent man. That touch of common decency was severely lacking from the last campaign.

    I wonder what the hell Trump will do over the next few days to steal the headlines

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    Aug 29th 2018, 9:26 AM

    @Philip Morgan: Bomb Iran in his honour? He’s been pushing it for long enough, it would be a fitting tribute to his lifes work

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-zoPgv_nYg&feature=youtu.be

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    Aug 29th 2018, 10:25 AM

    @Philip Morgan: not sure if youve actually read about his tactics or just one watched a clip about him not allowing one of his supporters call Obama an Arab, but he actually launched one of the most racist presidential campaigns in preceding 2008.
    He is also a Zionist supporter and actively supported Israel’s settlement expansion.

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    Aug 29th 2018, 11:16 AM

    @Dermot Foley: By no means was he flawless, calling his wife a cvnt (she had teased him about balding), a teenage Chelsea Clinton ugly, his fellow senators a$$holes and referring to his captors in Vietnam as g°°ks (he later clarified that it referred only to the individuals that had tortured him, but still). Yes he was an a$$hole, but he did something that seems to be completely dead in American politics now, and that is working across the aisle. His concession speech in ’08 was spectacular. He was flawed, right-wing, personally principled, often well-meaning, sometimes prejudiced, diplomatic, thoughtful, and hot-headed. Claiming that he was evil-hearted is just as dishonest as immortalising him as a “true American hero”. I think he said it best himself, a flawed patriot.

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    Aug 29th 2018, 12:47 PM

    @Dave O Keeffe: Plagiarism is nothing to be proud of, but plagiarising someones eulogy, someone elses personal thoughts and feelings is the epitome of sadness. Hang your head in shame

    https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/john-mccain-death-legacy-trump-us-senator-vietnam-war-a8511441.html

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    Aug 29th 2018, 1:44 PM

    @JimmyMc: yeah, bits of it summed up my opinion pretty well so I copied it and made some minor tweaks. So what? If that’s your take away from it then I feel sad for you

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    Aug 29th 2018, 1:50 PM

    For those that are curious, this is the copied portion “he was flawed, right-wing, personally principled, often well-meaning, sometimes prejudiced, diplomatic, thoughtful, and hot-headed. Claiming that he was evil-hearted is just as dishonest as immortalising him as a “true American hero”.” Yes I took it from an article in the independent, because it was wonderfully phrased and summed McCain up quite well. Probably should have given credit though.

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    Aug 29th 2018, 1:50 PM

    @Dave O Keeffe: Journalists from national publications summing up your opinion, comical stuff that. Don’t feel sad for me, I’ve never had to resort to using someone elses feeling to express and pass them off as my own

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    Aug 29th 2018, 2:13 PM

    @JimmyMc: when talking about a person very often many people will feel the same. Hilarious I know!

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    Aug 29th 2018, 9:11 AM

    Hundreds of thousands of people are dead because of this man’s urges. He was captured and tortured in Vietnam and held for 2 years. Instead of seeing war, especially modern abstract wars were no one is even sure why they are fighting in the first place, as the antithesis of the evolved human being, he went the other way and became obsessed with pushing US intervention militarily, and the rest is history – endless war, the destruction of Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, and much of Syria, hundred of thousands dead and the present migrant crisis. Rest in peace John McCain , although I do not think you will find much peace.

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    Aug 29th 2018, 9:20 AM

    @raymond grehan: yes because he was the only voice advocating for war. It’s all very well us criticizing the US but then again we weren’t forced into 2 world wars costing the lives of over 600k soldiers for wars that were on the other side of the world.

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    Aug 29th 2018, 9:29 AM

    @Jay Coleman: You would think that the lives of over 6000k soldiers is an even better excuse not to start wars in Iraq and Afghanistan which have been a proven abject failure.

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    Aug 29th 2018, 9:37 AM

    @Jay Coleman: Please read my comment again. Firstly I do not mention the 2 world wars? Secondly I refer to modern abstract wars were no one really knows why they are there in the first place.
    p.s. The Nazis and the communists in Russia were both funded in part by Wall street and Rothchild banking circles .
    The research of Doctor Anthony Sutton.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OshpXlULhTk

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    Aug 29th 2018, 10:01 AM

    @raymond grehan: ah stop once you mention that Rothschild nonsense you just come across as a tinfoil hat.

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    Aug 29th 2018, 10:20 AM

    @Jay Coleman: ok ignore the excellent research of Prof. Sutton if you choose. It is your choice.

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    Aug 29th 2018, 11:17 AM

    @raymond grehan: Putting an academic name on the Rothschild theories doesn’t make them any less loony, Raymond.

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    Aug 29th 2018, 8:09 AM

    Fair winds and following seas…

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    Aug 29th 2018, 11:32 AM

    McCain was a warmonger. Whole swathes of the world have been laid waste by the American ruling class. We are supposed to commemorate one of the political leaders of that barbarism? Just because relentless official public opinion tries to befuddle our brains does not mean we can’t actually think for ourselves.
    Why the US ruling class mourns John McCain
    http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/08/27/pers-a27.html

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    Aug 29th 2018, 12:10 PM
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