We get drilled in our heads how John McCain was a POW for five years. But, it seems that period immediately following his return to the US is skipped over. I believe this period is being kept quiet and needs to be known. I was looking up some background on John McCain, and ran across a the period between 1973, his return from Vietnam; and, 1980, his divorce from Carol Shepp and marriage to Cindy Lou Hensley.
I am sure many people her at DU has already know about this. However, I have heard little about this portion of his life, and as I performed more research, I found out many more issues that I had not known about. Hence, I wanted to share them with everyone here.
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Carol McCain, once a model, had been badly injured in a car wreck in 1969. The article recounts that her injuries "left her 4 inches shorter and on crutches, and she gained a good deal of weight."
By 1979, McCain was concerned that his Naval career was not advancing and pondering his future. He met Cindy Hensley, an attractive 25-year-old woman from a wealthy Arizona family. McCain courted her and married her in May 1980 -- a month after getting a divorce.
Less than a year later, the McCains moved to Arizona where Cindy's family runs one of the country's largest Anheuser-Busch distributorships. A year after that, McCain ran for an open congressional seat and won. He was on his way.
You won't find an account of this period on McCain's Web site. It isn't in his bestselling book, Faith of My Fathers, where McCain recounts his military experiences as well as those of his father and grandfather.
Yet this portion of McCain's life is as relevant to voters as his war record. http://www.sptimes.com/News/022900/Worldandnation/Private_life_shaped_c.shtml