PHOENIX (AP) – Former Vice President Joe Biden says he thought of Senator John McCain as a brother, with `a lot of family fights.’
The Democrat dabbed his eyes early in his speech Thursday at the Phoenix memorial service for the longtime Republican senator.
Biden says the two men got to know each other while making overseas trips together. They’d talk about family, politics and international relations. Biden says they were both “cock-eyed optimists.”
Biden says that they understood it’s all about trust and that he would trust John with his life.
Biden said Thursday at the memorial service for the longtime Arizona senator that the same aggressive brain cancer that claimed McCain also claimed their friend Ted Kennedy and Biden’s son Beau.
Biden told McCain’s family he understood that there was nothing anyone could do to ease their pain.
McCain left Arizona for the last time as he makes his final flight to Washington, D.C.
An Air Force passenger plane carrying the casket of the six-term senator and two-time presidential candidate departed Thursday.
Hundreds of military service members stood in formation on the tarmac as McCain and his family left the Arizona Air National Guard base at the Phoenix airport.
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