John McCain: friends and family bid farewell to 'a true American hero'

Mourners including Joe Biden said goodbye in Phoenix, in a program reflecting McCain’s legacy of forging unlikely friendships

Senator John McCain was remembered in Phoenix on Thursday as a “true American hero” and a political “maverick”, whose salty humor and scrappy nature endeared him to generations of Arizonans and Americans.

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