Celebrating Senator John McCain
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Channel: VOA Africa · 2018 · News & Politics
The five-day mourning period for the late Senator John McCain of Arizona ended Sunday, when he was laid to rest at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland next to his longtime friend and academy classmate, Admiral Chuck Larson, who died in 2014. On Saturday’s Memorial Service held in Washington’s National Cathedral, former Democratic President Barack Obama denounced the current state of U.S. politics as "mean and petty". VOA’s Vincent Makori reports.
