Posted on Aug 25, 2023

Today in History: August 25, deaths of McCain and Kennedy

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On Aug. 25, 2018, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who had spent years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam before a 35-year political career that took him to the Republican presidential nomination, died at the age of 81 after battling brain cancer for more than a year.

Today in History: August 25, deaths of McCain and Kennedy

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CSM Chuck Stafford

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In 2001, R&B singer Aaliyah (ah-LEE’-yah) was killed with eight others in a plane crash in the Bahamas; she was 22.

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MSgt Dale Johnson

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Not a Special Date or occasion I wish to join in.

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