[His son] Jimmy’s service is the lone subject about which McCain will not answer questions – "We’re proud of all our kids, is what we say." He has another son, Jack, who is a midshipman at the Naval Academy, like his father and grandfather and great-grandfather before him. McCain will talk about Jack, because Jack is safe in Annapolis. But McCain will not talk about Jimmy, whose imminent departure represented one of those rare instances when a family’s and a nation’s dramas unfolded on the same front line. Not since Adlai Stevenson had a presidential candidate seen his son off to war.



Another reason why McCain is perhaps the most honest and honorable Republican candidate of the decade.