NFL Star Larry Fitzgerald Delivers Touching McCain Eulogy: We’ll ‘Miss the Blessings of Being in Your Presence’
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FITZGERALD: "I fell in love with my country when I was prisoner in someone else’s, senator McCain spoke these heartfelt words as he accepted the nomination in 2008. They were the words of an American hero. We know how the story goes, a Navy pilot shot down by the north Vietnamese over a lake. As his plane sped out of control he got out in time to plunge into the lake. The young gentleman came, he was taken hostage is a prisoner of war he spent more than five and a half years, almost 2000 days, enduring countless beatings, torture, solitary confinement, and mental and emotional anguish none of us will have to endure. I felt compelled to visit Vietnam, I wanted to see the places where the will of John McCain was tested. I saw the lake. I walked the steps. The ordeal my friend survived became all the more real."
