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US flags fly at half-mast outside the Capitol, Washington DC
LONG-SERVING Arizona senator John McCain died at the weekend from a brain tumour, just hours after announcing that he would discontinue medical treatment.
The former naval pilot, who was shot down over the Vietnamese capital Hanoi in 1967 and held as a prisoner of war for more than five years, was routinely eulogised as a war hero by political allies and opponents in the US.
Former president Barack Obama, who defeated Mr McCain in the 2008 election, said that, despite their differences, they shared a “fidelity to something higher — the ideals for which generations of Americans and immigrants alike have fought, marched, and sacrificed.”
KEVAN NELSON reports back from a delegation to the epic celebrations for the anniversary of Vietnam’s 1945 revolution, where British communists found a thriving, prosperous socialist country, brimming with ambition and well-earned national pride
