WHEREAS, on August 25, 2018, the Honorable John Sidney McCain III, senior United States Senator from Arizona and a true statesman and American patriot of our modern age lost his battle against brain cancer and passed away at his home in Cornville, Arizona; and
WHEREAS, the Chicago City Council has been informed of his passing by Alderman Edward M. Burke; and
WHEREAS, the Honorable John Sidney McCain III was a 1958 graduate of the United States Naval Academy; and
WHEREAS, on his twenty-third bombing mission during the Vietnam War in October 1967, the Honorable John Sidney McCain III was shot down over Hanoi and badly injured; and
WHEREAS, the Honorable John Sidney McCain III endured five-and-a-half-years as a prisoner of war and endured subsequent tortures before his release from captivity in 1973; and
WHEREAS, in 1968 he refused an offer of early release because he did not want to leave behind other prisoners of war who had been there longer; and
WHEREAS, the Honorable John Sidney McCain 111 retired from the Navy as a captain in 1981; and
WHEREAS, the Honorable John Sidney McCain III was awarded the Navy Commendation Medal and the Bronze Star Medal for missions flown over North Vietnam; and
WHEREAS, included among his other military service decorations and awards were the Silver Star, two Legion of Merits, Distinguished Flying Cross, three Bronze Star Medals, two Purple Hearts, two Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medals, and the Prisoner of War Medal; and
WHEREAS, the Honorable John Sidney McCain III entered politics and won election to Arizona's first Congressional District in 1982; and
WHEREAS, the Honorable John Sidney McCain III was elected to the United States Senate for the first time in 1986, succeeding the Honorable Barry Goldwater; and
WHEREAS, the Honorable John Sidney McCain III won re-election to the U.S. Senate five times; and
WHEREAS, the Honorable John Sidney McCain III won the 2008 Republican Party presidential nomination and garnered 173 electora...
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