that make it in some way harder on them individually as they came through, grandfather, great grandfather and father were e exalted alumni. yes. however, there were a number of classmates that never knew senator mccain s father was a captain in the navy. he didn t brag about it. leland: wow. so humility as well in addition to his other when we re talking about when senator mccain was a midshipman which would have been in the 50s, 54 to 58 at the academy and his father at the time was one of the more revered combat tested alumni of the naval academy and you re saying he never told anyone. right. his father was a submarine commander during world war ii and had sunk several japanese ships including a destroyer so he had a very stellar combat record and was clearly someone who was on track to go a lot