I just found out
that I was living in New London while Senator John McCain, as a child, lived on
Ocean Avenue while his father was at the New London Submarine base in Groton.
Although younger I
went to a school one street up , a block away as the crow flies while my mother
was caring for my grandmother.
My father worked at
the New London Submarine base while Johns father was at the base!
Age 12-15
I delivered the 'Day
newspaper' at that house, of course the McCain family was gone from
Connecticut.
New London Flies
American Flag At Home Where Sen. McCain Lived As A Child
Ruth Brunorbruno@courant.com
An American flag is
flying at the New
London residence where the late
Sen. John McCain once lived as a young boy, according to city officials.
McCain spent some of
his early years in the city — his father was in the Navy — and was a student at
Harbor School, the city said.
According to a
message posted on the city’s Facebook page Thursday, the flag was hoisted at
the Ocean Avenue home by city workers who noticed the house didn’t have a flag
and wanted to pay tribute to the senator, who died last Saturday at the age of
81.
McCain’s family
lived in the New London house for a few years in the early 1940s, attending
kindergarten and first grade, when his father was stationed at the Naval
Submarine Base in Groton, the senator wrote his memoir, “Faith of My Fathers.”
Senator John
McCain's childhood home in Connecticut gets American flag
Associated Press
6:00 AM, Aug 31,
2018
City
of New London, Connecticut Facebook
NEW
LONDON, CT - The city of New London, Connecticut, has placed a U.S. flag on the
home where late U.S. Sen. John McCain lived as a child.
City
workers donated their time to install the flag with the current homeowner's
permission.
The
city on its Facebook page called the flag "a fitting tribute to an
American hero who spent his formative years" in the city.
The
Republican senator from Arizona attended the Harbor School for kindergarten and
first grade when he was living in New London in the 1940s because his father
was stationed at the Naval Submarine Base in Groton.
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