John McCain, Arizona senator and Vietnam war hero, dies at 81

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    John Sidney McCain III, a Vietnam War hero with more than 35 years of public service and who became one of the most distinctive figures in modern American politics as a maverick conservative who took delight in disruption, died Saturday at his home in Arizona.

    He was 81.

    McCain was the admiral’s son who refused an easy out from a Vietcong prison, enduring torture rather than abandoning his friends

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