worked in lower manhattan. a few weeks ago they started a petition, a couple hundred signatures, i showed them around, showed them a few more and thought they were fairly confident it would go through. he wanted to rename the street. correct. they denied it but this time we remember the fallen so chris brinkley, an army veteran heading up the petition, 5500 signatures, they want to know if family members are ever forgotten. the people who passed by a daily basis, they look up and see a real american hero. he was killed by a sniper s bullet in august 2005. in 2017, 149 streets, 42 for
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very emotional, very personal tribute. well, thank you, andrea, thank you for the opportunity to talk about a real american hero. as a lifelong military man, someone who s written about vietnam, importantly, let s talk about the legacy of his service in vietnam, and what he did to heal the wounds from that war. well, john mccain had a lot of wonderful qualities. and one of them was empathy. he always tried to understand complex situations and problems from the other person s perspective. and so what he saw is, after the vietnam war, after the disaster of that war and his personal scars associated with it and the tremendous sacrifices he made, he saw that vietnam s interests were aligning with those of our country. he thought, this is the time, this is the time for us to bring our country back to vietnam and to start to develop what is now
his honor. it is such pettiness, such pettiness in reaction to a real american hero. you know, i realize the president never wanted to serve in the military, but he ought to show some admiration for someone who did and served nobly. we do know that yesterday for several hours the white house flag was lowered to half staff but for some reason overnight it was raised once again. the flags are at half staff clearly up on capitol hill. i want to get to that in a moment, but we ve heard so many stories about senator mccain s very strong friendships, not necessarily restricted by age or party affiliation. you re clearly a democrat, senator mccain of course was a republican. as you correctly point out, you often didn t see eye to eye on a lot of these substantive issues, but what does that say about