Sunday, 2 September 2018

PHOTOS From Senator John McCain's Funeral! #McCainMemorial #McCainFuneral

Former presidents, congressional colleagues and family have gathered in Washington to mark the passing of US Senator John McCain with a procession through the capital before an invitation-only funeral service.
The Senator and war hero died just days before his 82nd birthday, little more than a year after he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer (pictured Friday August 31)
McCain, who died on Tuesday just days before his 82nd birthday, was carried from the US Capitol by Armed Forces Body Bearers, before he was transported by a motorcade to Washington National Cathedral. Eight members of the Armed Forces were seen carrying McCain's coffin from the Rotunda to a waiting hearse about 8.30am, with one man at the back appearing to direct them. At one point, the plastic covering protecting the casket from adverse weather blew off McCain and straight on to the head of a soldier. He did not flinch, and continued marching down the stairs until someone was able to take the plastic off him. The casket then joined a police motorcade, with multiple large black vans at the back. Crowds were seen lining the street outside and inside the Vietnam Veterans memorial ahead of McCain's arrival. The motorcade took McCain and his family to the Memorial ahead of the funeral, where the Senator's wife, Cindy, laid a wreath to honor those lost in the Vietnam War.
A Military Honor Guard carries the casket of US Senator John McCain from the US Capitol. A plastic protective cover blew off the casket and on to one officer
Crowds were seen gathering at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, where a naval officer stood with a wreath for Mrs McCain to lay in her husband's honor
US Navy SN Caleb Harrington (pictured), from Fresno, will assist the US Secretary of Defense James Mattis, General John Kelly, White House Chief of Staff and Cindy McCain lay a ceremonial wreath honoring all whose lives were lost during the Vietnam War
The family matriarch held another son's hand earlier in the day as she cried while McCain's casket was brought out of the Rotunda and loaded into a hearse
Pictured from left: Former First Lady Laura Bush, former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former vice president Dick Cheney and his wife Lynne and former vice president Al Gore
Former President Barack Obama remembered McCain as a 'troublemaker', who could not be forced into a box. He joked McCain's last greatest prank was having himself and Bush, McCain's political opponents, eulogize him as a last laugh
His family have been present at seven other services held in Arizona and Washington, and will bury McCain at the US Naval Academy on Sunday (pictured: Roberta McCain, 106, is seen at her son's casket as it is laid in state in the Rotunda at Capitol Hill on Friday)
McCain's son Jimmy walks from the podium, past his father's casket, after reading the poem The Requiem
A military honor guard team carries the casket of late Senator John McCain into the Washington National Cathedral
John's wife Cindy helped lay the wreath at the Vietnam Veterans memorial alongside John Kelly and Jim Mattis 
RIP sir!

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