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Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-AZ) speaks at a news conference at the U.S.
Capitol February 24, 2016 in Washington, DC.
John McCain, the former presidential candidate and war hero who survived torture in Hanoi to serve three decades as a U.S.
Senator, at times vexing his own party as a "maverick" who cast the key vote on healthcare reform, is dead at the age of 81.
McCain died at 4:28 p.m.
on August 25, 2018, not long after his family announced that he was ceasing treatment for brain cancer.
He was surrounded by his wife, Cindy, and his family when he died.
His office released a statement, highlighting how McCain had served his country "faithfully for sixty years" at the time of his death.
The son of an Admiral who hailed from a family with a long legacy of military tradition, McCain, who was born in the Panama Canal Zone, spent his entire life in public service, first serving in the Navy for 22 years (and spending more than five of those years as a North Vietnamese prisoner of war).
He served in Congress since 1982, became a U.S.
Senator in 1987, and was the 2008 Republican nominee for president.
McCain's death comes after the Arizona Republican revealed in July 2017 that he had been diagnosed with brain cancer.
Specifically, McCain was diagnosed with glioblastoma, which is a particularly aggressive form of the cancer.
Even before he passed away, there was jockeying for his seat in the U.S.
Senate, a seat the Republicans want to hold.
McCain died from the same form of brain cancer that felled U.S.
Senator Ted Kennedy and Beau Biden, the son of former vice president Joe Biden.
Kennedy survived 15 months after his diagnosis, which is about the median survival rate for that kind of tumor; Beau Biden lived two years.
Indeed, Joe Biden consoled McCain's daughter, Meghan McCain, on the set of the television show, The View, as news spread that her father was weakening.
McCain went home to Arizona for Christmas, missing a vote on tax reform, the first signal that he might not return to Washington.
In the days before his death, he was clearly weakening as his family announced he would no longer seek treatment.
Here's what you need to know:.
McCain Revealed He Was Suffering From Brain Cancer Last Summer & Slowly Declined.
John McCain revealed that he had brain cancer in July 2017.
McCain released a statement to the news media at that time that said in part, "On Friday, July 14, Sen.
John McCain underwent a procedure to remove a blood clot from above his left eye at Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix.
Subsequent tissue pathology revealed that a primary brain tumor known as a glioblastoma was associated with the blood clot.
Scanning done since the procedure (a minimally invasive craniotomy with an eyebrow incision) shows that the tissue of concern was completely resected by imaging criteria.".
McCain was hospitalized in December 2017 as news reports started to come out that his health was failing.
According to the Hill, President Trump called McCain's wife, Cindy McCain, on December 15 after McCain was hospitalized.
But he held on.
"McCain was hospitalized…at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington due to side effects from his cancer treatment," reported The Hill.
McCain was taken to the hospital in the midst of the tax reform bill in the Senate; according to The Hill, he voted "in favor of Senate Republicans' initial bill" earlier in December 2017, but had not yet said how he would vote on the final tax reform package.
A glioblastoma is the most common brain tumor that affects adults.
It is also the most rapidly growing malignant tumor of the brain, with the shortest survival rate," NBC reported.
Although McCain slowly weakened after announcing his diagnosis, he was able to attend the wedding of his daughter Meghan.
"After a health scare two weeks ago, McCain returned home to Arizona to spend the holidays with his family.
He tweeted on Dec.
18 that he was 'looking forward to returning to work after the holidays,'" The Hill reported.
McCain Was the Son of an Admiral & His Family Has a Long Legacy of Military Service.
When McCain went to war in Vietnam, he did so as the son of an Admiral.
According to Biography.com, "The son of a decorated Navy admiral, John McCain was born at the Coco Solo Naval Station in Panama on August 29, 1936.
He enrolled at the U.S.
Naval Academy and was dispatched to Vietnam, where he was tortured as a prisoner of war between 1967 and 1973.".
He was born John Sidney McCain III, "the second of three children born to naval officer John S.
McCain Jr.
and his wife, Roberta." It was a family with a long legacy of military service.
"Both McCain's father and paternal grandfather, John S.
McCain Sr., were four-star admirals, with John Jr.
rising to command U.S.
naval forces in the Pacific," Biography.com reported.
McCain's two youngest sons, Jack and Jimmy, are also in the U.S.
military.
Jimmy serves as a Marine, and has served tours in Iraq.
John is a Navy lieutenant and helicopter pilot.
As of the date of his death, McCain's mother was still alive at the age of 106-years-old.
McCain's Vietnamese captors during his years as a POW figured out that his father was an admiral.
"Though initially refusing to give McCain medical treatment, the North Vietnamese, upon discovering that McCain's father was an admiral in the Navy, decided to give him medical care," ABC News reported.
McCain Was Tortured & Interrogated as a POW by the North Vietnamese, Suffering Injuries That Lasted His Entire Life.
John McCain spent 5 and a half years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam.
He wrote a firsthand account of what occurred, which was printed in U.S.
News and World Report.
"The date was Oct. 26, 1967.
I was on my 23rd mission, flying right over the heart of Hanoi in a dive at about 4,500 feet, when a Russian missile the size of a telephone pole came up—the sky was full of them—and blew the right wing off my Skyhawk dive bomber.
It went into an inverted, almost straight-down spin," McCain wrote.
A crowd of people converged on him, he wrote.
"Some North Vietnamese swam out and pulled me to the side of the lake and immediately started stripping me, which is their standard procedure.
Of course, this being in the center of town, a huge crowd of people gathered, and they were all hollering and screaming and cursing and spitting and kicking at me." What ensued was years of captivity in brutal conditions as his captors interrogated him.
"They beat me around a little bit.
I was in such bad shape that when they hit me it would knock me unconscious.
They kept saying, "You will not receive any medical treatment until you talk," McCain recalled, the magazine article imparted.
U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr.
Jay Coupe, Center Left, Escorts Lt.
Cmdr. John Mccain To A Waiting U.S.
Air Force C-141A Starlifter Cargo Transport Aircraft At Gia Lam Airport March 14, 1973 In Hanoi, North Vietnam.
McCain's injuries were severe both from the crash and his treatment as a POW.
"When he noticed the injuries to his right leg –- which he says had fractured at the knee –- one of his captors slammed a rifle butt into his right shoulder, shattering it, the account said.
He was then bayoneted in the abdomen and foot," ABC News reported.
For two years, McCain was kept in solitary confinement.
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