Meghan McCain’s emotions gave way as she stood over her father John McCain’s casket at a private memorial service in Phoenix on Wednesday, August 29.
The 33-year-old cried as she approached the flag-draped coffin at the Arizona Capitol and briefly touched the casket before walking to her seat.
Her mother, Cindy McCain, held her composure, though she fought back tears, when she walked up to the coffin, laying her head on the casket in a heartwarming moment.
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Meghan McCain’s emotions gave way as she stood over her father John McCain’s casket at a private memorial service in Phoenix on Wednesday, August 29. The 33-year-old cried as she approached the flag-draped coffin at the Arizona Capitol and briefly touched the casket before walking to her seat. [sendtonews type="float" key="DWj9DHeqcq-3102313-14453"] Her mother, Cindy McCain, held her composure, though she fought back tears, when she walked up to the coffin, laying her head on the casket in a heartwarming moment.
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Meghan McCain’s emotions gave way as she stood over her father John McCain’s casket at a private memorial service in Phoenix on Wednesday, August 29. The 33-year-old cried as she approached the flag-draped coffin at the Arizona Capitol and briefly touched the casket before walking to her seat. [sendtonews type="float" key="DWj9DHeqcq-3102313-14453"] Her mother, Cindy McCain, held her composure, though she fought back tears, when she walked up to the coffin, laying her head on the casket in a heartwarming moment.
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The senator will lie in state in Arizona on Wednesday before a memorial service celebrating his life at North Phoenix Baptist Church the following day. He will lie in state at the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C. on Friday, August 31, before a funeral mass at the National Cathedral on Saturday, September 1, where former presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush will deliver eulogies. A private burial will take place on Sunday, September 2, following a private service at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. McCain died on Saturday, August 25, at the age of 81 after battling brain cancer. The McCain family announced one day prior that he would not continue medical treatment for the condition.
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Cindy wrote on Twitter of her husband’s passing: “My heart is broken. I am so lucky to have lived the adventure of loving this incredible man for 38 years. He passed the way he lived, on his own terms, surrounded by the people he loved, in the the place he loved best.”
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“I was with my father at his end, as he was with me at my beginning,” Meghan wrote in a tribute to her father on Saturday. “In the thirty-three years we shared together, he raised me, taught me, corrected me, comforted me, encouraged me, and supported me in all things. He loved me, and I loved him. He taught me how to live. His love and his care, ever present, always unfailing, took me from a girl to a woman — and he showed me what it is to be a man.”
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The View host added in her statement: “Now that he is gone, the task of my lifetime is to live up to his example, his expectations, and his love. My father’s passing comes with sorrow and grief for me, for my mother, for my brothers, and for my sisters. He was a great fire who burned bright, and we lived in his light and warmth for so very long. We know that his flame lives on, in each of us. The days and years to come will not be the same without my dad — but they will be good days, filled with life and love, because of the example he lived for us.”
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Cindy, 64, wed the politician in May 1980 and also shared sons Jack, 32, and Jimmy, 30, and daughter Bridget, 27, with him. He and his first wife, Carol McCain, had three children: Doug, 58, Andy, 56, and Sidney, 51.
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