McCain’s First Wife, Carol, Says She Will Be Attending Naval Academy Memorial Service

[mystery-ak]

McCain’s First Wife, Carol, Says She Will Be Attending Naval Academy Memorial Service
By Nicholas Ballasy August 31, 2018


A wooden spike marks the spot where Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) will be buried on the grounds of the U.S. Navel Academy in Annapolis, Md. (AP Photo/Laurie Kellman)

WASHINGTON – Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain’s first wife, Carol McCain, will attend Sunday's memorial service for the late senator at the Naval Academy Chapel in Annapolis, Md., PJM has learned.

McCain, 81, did not attend the Thursday memorial service at North Phoenix Baptist Church in Arizona, which was broadcast live and featured a handful of tributes including from former Vice President Joe Biden and Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald. She said she is also not going to attend Saturday’s service at the Washington National Cathedral, which is open to select media outlets. McCain confirmed with PJM by phone on Friday that she plans to attend the Sunday service.

“I'm going to be in Annapolis on Sunday at the chapel,” she said.

McCain would not say if she was invited to either of the services in Arizona or Washington.

“I don’t want to answer that,” said McCain, who is retired and living in Virginia Beach, Va.

She did not specify who had invited her to the Sunday service and she declined to provide any statement on Sen. McCain’s passing. It is unknown if McCain is formally participating in the ceremony. Gen. David Petraeus is scheduled to speak at the memorial being attended by close friends and family, and pallbearers will include fellow former POWs, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson and Defense Secretary James Mattis.

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[mystery-ak]

This is Carol McCain, John McCain's first wife. She was not invited to McCain's Arizona funeral either. McCain adopted his first wife Carol's two children, Douglas and Andrew, after the couple married in 1965 and a year later they had their only child together: Sidney. All of the McCain children attended his funeral service in Arizona, including Carol's children, Douglas and Andrew. The mother of three of his children, Carol, was not invited, and neither was Sarah Palin, his VP candidate in 2008.

Two years after marrying, John became a prisoner of war and was not released back to his family until 1973. In turn, Carol had to raise her sons and the couple’s daughter for an estimated six years, on her own. When McCain returned home from Vietnam in 1973 after being captured and held as a prisoner of war for five years, he found out about a car accident Carol had three years earlier that left her badly injured.

He left her because she was disfigured and started dating Cindy Hensley while still married to Carol. McCain pushed for a divorce in 1980 and, that same year, McCain married Cindy, who was 17 years younger.

Cindy was born into a wealthy family - her father was one of the biggest Anheuser Busch distributors in the United States. After her father died, she inherited the company and has an estimated net worth of over $100 million.

Ronald and Nancy Reagan were both appalled at McCain for what he did to his first wife. Carol McCain was Director of the White House Visitors Office during the Reagan administration. This is the guy the media is now holding up as a saint? I think not.

[Wingnut]

He and John Edwards have a lot in common.   

[mystery-ak]

John McCain's First Wife Opens Up About Him Leaving Her to Marry Cindy: 'It Broke My Heart'

https://people.com/politics/john-mccain-daughter-sidney-first-wife-discuss-divorce/

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In sickness and in health....must have been eliminated from McCain's vows

[Frank Cannon]

John McCain is a dirtbag and an all around piece of shit just like his pill popping felon wife and fat stupid daughter.

[Cyber Liberty]

He and John Edwards have a lot in common.   

More like John Effin Kerry.

[mountaineer]

... She is McCain’s first wife, Carol, who was a famous beauty and a successful swimwear model when they married in 1965.

She was the woman McCain dreamed of during his long incarceration and torture in Vietnam’s infamous ‘Hanoi Hilton’ prison and the woman who faithfully stayed at home looking after the children and waiting anxiously for news.

But when McCain returned to America in 1973 to a fanfare of publicity and a handshake from Richard Nixon, he discovered his wife had been disfigured in a terrible car crash three years earlier. Her car had skidded on icy roads into a telegraph pole on Christmas Eve, 1969. Her pelvis and one arm were shattered by the impact and she suffered massive internal injuries.

When Carol was discharged from hospital after six months of life-saving surgery, the prognosis was bleak. In order to save her legs, surgeons had been forced to cut away huge sections of shattered bone, taking with it her tall, willowy figure. She was confined to a wheelchair and was forced to use a catheter.

Through sheer hard work, Carol learned to walk again. But when John McCain came home from Vietnam, she had gained a lot of weight and bore little resemblance to her old self.

When McCain – his hair turned prematurely white and his body reduced to little more than a skeleton – was released in March 1973, he told reporters he was overjoyed to see Carol again.

But friends say privately he was ‘appalled’ by the change in her appearance. At first, though, he was kind, assuring her: ‘I don’t look so good myself. It’s fine.’

McCain has acknowledged that he had girlfriends during this time, without going into details.

In 1979 – while still married to Carol – he met Cindy at a cocktail party in Hawaii. Over the next six months he pursued her, flying around the country to see her. Then he began to push to end his marriage.  ...

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