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by LAUREN HUBBARD
SEP 1, 2018
... We gather to mourn the passing of American greatness, the real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice, those that live lives of comfort and privilege while he suffered and served ...
He was a great fire who burned bright ... A few have resented that fire for the light it cast upon them for the truth it revealed about their character, but my father never cared what they thought ...
Several of you in the pews that crossed swords with him or found yourselves on the receiving end of his famous temper or were at a cross purpose to him on anything, are doing your best to stay stone faced. Don't. You know full well if John McCain were in your shoes today, he would be using some salty word while my mother jabbed him in the arm in embarrassment. He would look back at her and grumble, maybe stop talking, but he would keep grinning. She was the only one who could do that ...
... He was shot down, he was crippled, he was beaten, starved, tortured and humiliated. That pain never left him ...
... The America of John McCain is the America of .. fighters with no stomach for the summer soldier and sunshine patriot ...
... The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again because America was always great ...
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/a22892378/meghan-mccain-eulogy-for-john-mccain-full-transcript/
MiniMe
(21,718 posts)"We gather to mourn the passing of American greatness, the real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice, those that live lives of comfort and privilege while he suffered and served."
At least I saw it as an arrow at the cheeto
john657
(1,058 posts)the infant idiot in the WH.
What a great eulogy Meghan gave.
I don't agree with Meghan about much, but it was a great speech and my heart goes out to her for the pain she is feeling
Ilsa
(61,697 posts)"The real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly, nor the opportunistic appropriation of those who lived lives of comfort"