John McCain, War Hero, Senator, Presidential Contender, Dies at 81

US Senator John McCain, a Vietnam War hero and towering political figure who became the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, passed away on Saturday afternoon, according to a statement.

Sen. John McCain, the former POW and outspoken Republican politician nicknamed The Maverick for being unafraid to disagree with fellow members of his party, has died.
He was 81.
 “Senator John Sidney McCain III died at 4:28 p.m. on August 25, 2018,” his family said in a statement Saturday, according to NBC News. On Friday, his family announced that McCain, “with his usual strength of will,” decided to stop treatment for the stage-four brain cancer he had been battling since its diagnosis last summer. “In the year since,” the McCain family said, “John has surpassed expectations for his survival. But the progress of disease and the inexorable advance of age render their verdict.”

RIP sir!