Addressing an estimated 3,500 mourners, former vice president Joe Biden recalled “the sheer joy that crossed his face when he knew he was about to take the stage of the Senate floor and start a fight”.
Biden, a Democrat who was among the fast friends the Republican senator made across the aisle, said he thought of McCain as a brother, “with a lot of family fights”.
The service for the statesman, former prisoner of war and two-time presidential candidate unfolded at North Phoenix Baptist Church in Phoenix, Arizona, after a motorcade bearing McCain’s body made its way from the state Capitol past people waving American flags and campaign-style McCain signs.
Cindy McCain, wife of Sen John McCain
Family members watched in silence as uniformed military members removed the flag-draped coffin from a black hearse and carried it into the church.
McCain died last Saturday of brain cancer at 81.
McCain’s longtime chief of staff Grant Woods, a former Arizona attorney general, drew laughs with a eulogy in which he talked about McCain’s “terribly bad driving” and his sense of humour.
The church’s senior pastor, Noe Garcia, pronounced McCain “a true American hero”.
Former Vice President Joe Biden gives a tribute…
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