McCain credits lessons learned at Naval Academy (Baltimore Sun)

GreatAmerican
Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:14:56 +0000

Likely GOP presidential nominee speaks in Annapolis as part of campaign swing

[McCain credits lessons learned at Naval Academy – Elections, Anne Arundel County, Robert L. Ehrlich – baltimoresun.com](http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/politics/bal-mccain0402,0,4146187.story)



During a campaign visit to Maryland today, likely Republican presidential nominee John McCain said too few Americans live up to their civic responsibilities and challenged them to do more to serve their community and country.

The Arizona senator, halfway through a weeklong swing designed to highlight his life story, made stops this morning in Annapolis, where he was a plebe at the U.S. Naval Academy more than half a century ago.

In brief remarks before an invited audience at the school’s football stadium, he credited lessons learned at the academy with sustaining him as a prisoner of war in Vietnam after his plane was shot down in 1967…