Sen. John McCain’s flag-draped casket arrived at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington, D.C., late Thursday, where the former presidential candidate will lie in state at the Capitol rotunda following similar honors in Phoenix.
Ordinary citizens will be among those who pay their respects to the Arizona Republican, as will his longtime congressional colleagues.
However, President Trump, with whom McCain frequently found himself at political odds, will be conspicuously absent from ceremonies leading up to a private interment at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., for the former naval aviator and Vietnam War prisoner.
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