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| Contributor | Gerald Farinas |
| Last Edited | Gerald Farinas Feb 23, 2008 03:27pm |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Newspaper - Honolulu Advertiser |
| News Date | Saturday, February 23, 2008 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Honolulu Advertiser
Barack Obama, who was born here and graduated from Punahou School, isn't the only presidential candidate with an interesting history in Hawai'i.
Sen. John McCain III was greeted by a throng of well-wishers at Hickam Air Force Base in 1973 after the Navy combat pilot spent 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. His father, Adm. John McCain Jr., was Commander of U.S. Pacific Command in Hawai'i from 1968 to 1972. The fact that McCain Jr. was commander of naval forces in Europe and then commander of all American forces in the Pacific Theatre when McCain III was shot down probably saved the younger McCain's life.
McCain said the panic of approaching death overwhelmed him when captured. McCain was awakened by the camp officer who excitedly told him, "Your father is a big admiral. Now we take you to hospital." McCain said, "God bless my father."
There is one other Hawai'i connection for the senator. McCain met his second wife, then Cindy Hensley, at a military reception in Hawai'i in 1979, the Arizona Republic reported. He persuaded her to have drinks at the Royal Hawaiian hotel. "By the evening's end, I was in love," McCain wrote in a 2002 follow-up book. |
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