World Leaders Pay Tribute to Late Senator John McCain

U.S. Senator John McCain was a symbol of his generation who helped heal the wounds of war

In the recent tributes payed to the Late Senator John McCain, World Leaders have come to describe what the senator meant to them when he was on earth. McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam who ran for president in 2008 as a self-styled maverick Republican and became a prominent critic of President Donald Trump, died on Saturday. He was 81. McCain had been one of the most vocal proponents in Washington in favor of normalizing ties with Communist-led Vietnam, a former enemy of the United States. His public relationship with the Southeast Asian country began as a naval aviator during the Vietnam War, when his plane was shot down during a bombing mission over Hanoi in 1967.