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- I've never seen many of these before. As always, I've googled the hell out of candidates since 2000. A couple of Florida papers did major pieces on McCain's time in Florida when he got the nomination in 2008. When he was captured his wife and kids lived in my hometown just outside of Jacksonville. He was stationed at Cecil Field, now closed (my father was a Navy instructor on A4's there). My mother wore his POW bracelet till he came home. (Her house now is a street or 2 over from his old place).
I knew we had a POW (I think a couple). I had no idea about all the rest till he ran in 2008. I had moved away by the time of his release. Since his father and grandfather were both ADMIRALS, I don't know if things were kept discreet for all their protection or my own obliviousness of youth. He was neighbors of some of my classmates and one girl was his kids babysitter. I remember no discussion of any of it in those days. I read years later that REAGAN visited his wife and kids at that home. Ross Perot paid to send McCain's kids to a private school. Nancy Reagan befriended his ex-wife and got her a job in DC after McCain divorced her.
I guess they reran this piece a couple of days ago...
Photos: U.S. Sen. John McCain’s Navy career and Jacksonville ties
August 24, 2018 at 7:40 pm
U.S. Sen. John McCain’s roots run deep in Jacksonville. A year after moving his family to Orange Park in 1966, the Cecil Field pilot was on a raid in North Vietnam when his plane was shot down and McCain was captured and held as a prisoner of war until March 1973. Upon his release, he returned to Jacksonville and his family. McCain would return to the area years later during his presidential run in 2007-08.
http://www.jacksonville.com/photogal...824009981/PH/1