Connecticut city puts up flag at McCain boyhood home
Aug 31, 2018, 6:13 AM | Updated: 7:43 am
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One of the childhood homes of U.S. Sen. John McCain has been decorated with an American flag in his honor, city officials said.
Staff for New London, Connecticut, placed the flag on the Ocean Avenue home where McCain lived in the 1940s.
The homeowner gave city workers, who donated their time, permission to put up the flag.
McCain, 81, died of brain cancer last Saturday after a yearlong struggle.
The Arizona Republican lived in New London twice — from 3 months old until he was 2 and again from ages 4 to 9, according to the Norwich (Connecticut) Bulletin, when his father, John McCain Jr. was stationed at the Naval Submarine Base in Groton.
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The city said on its Facebook page the flag was “a fitting tribute to an American hero who spent his formative years” there.
After two days of public tributes and a memorial service in Phoenix, the Navy veteran will lie in state under the U.S. Capitol rotunda Friday.
A service was scheduled Saturday at Washington’s National Cathedral. Former presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama were expected to speak.
The former Vietnam prisoner of war will be buried in a private ceremony Sunday at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
KTAR News 92.3 FM will carry live, uninterrupted coverage of the national memorial service for Sen. John McCain at 7-9 a.m. Saturday.
