WNU Editor: I learned about John McCain's death at a sports bar/restaurant in Kingston, Ontario last night. And it was fitting that I learned about it with my two visiting cousins from Russia (ex-military .... albeit Soviet) and two followers of WNU who are ex-U.S. military who wanted to meet me on our short road-trip. Senator McCain's military career was (and is) incredible, and his passing away last night opened up my cousins to talk about their war experiences (in Afghanistan), as well as the Iraq experiences of my American friends. That is the legacy of the man. Not his political career and two failed Presidential bids .... which will be just footnotes in history. What he will be remembered for is his military career .... and more specifically his strength as a human being to survive five and a half years as a POW in a North Vietnamese prison camp. But for now .... in the coming days the politicians and the media will present a political narrative that is completely opposite to how they treated him when he was a political opponent. And when they are finished, they will forget about John McCain forever. But one thing that I learned last night is that soldiers will not forget who and what John McCain was .... for them John McCain will be remembered forever.
