Senator John McCain: RIP

       The US Senator John McCain passed away this past weekend.  After battling brain cancer for over a year, he finally succumbed to the disease.  He will lie in state at the rotunda of the Capitol tomorrow.  He will be interred at US Naval Academy Cemetery where the graves of his father and grandfather are located.
      Much has been written of his service to the country,, not the least of which was his time as a prisoner-of-war for 5 years in Hanoi during the Vietnam War.  He had been shot down in 1967 over Hanoi and was captured by locals who pulled him from a lake in the center of the city.  His years of torture and beatings would have killed an ordinary human being.  He was anything but ordinary.
      More will be written about this American icon and he will add his name to the long list of American heroes.