The death this year of John McCain, George H W Bush, and his wife Barbara has seen the revival of America’s national myth. It is peculiar, and almost poetic, that such a resurgence could be felt at a time of such revulsion with public institutions.
We can mourn these figures for who they were; as mothers and fathers, husbands and wives, as public servants, as soldiers, as leaders, and as men and women of principle.
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