John McCain's headstone placed at U.S. Naval Academy cemetery

AZ Central | Oct 14, 2018 | Bree Burkitt

[libh8er]

Link only, due to copyright.

[Carl Vehse]

What next? A headstone for Benedict Arnold at Arlington?!?

[Jewbacca]

Weird looking urinal.

[60Gunner]

I think that the tail end of an A-4 sticking out of the ground with an eternal flame flickering from the exhaust would have been more fitting. Describes his naval career and his presidential campaigns at one toss.

[null and void]

The hardest vote I ever cast was for McCain.

I didn't vote for McCain, I voted for Palin.

[IronJack]

Looks oddly like a urinal ...

[null and void]

I though we were being rather mild, given his actions.

I don’t judge him by the color of his uniform, but the content of his character.

[null and void]

I'm calling BS. It might well be true but it's just what a downed pilot wants to have on his person, something that unquestionably identifies him as an enemy pilot, that any Nazi could find during a search at a security stop.

I'm pretty sure any well-fed military-aged man gets extra scrutiny...

[skimbell]

I can see a half dozen or so quarters in the picture.

That doesn't fit the story we got last August.

[Tammy8]

It is very common for things to be left on military headstones. Rocks, coins, and other things like cans of beer, ETC. Many things like this are left on graves at Arlington and even at the Vietnam Memorial Wall. The groundskeepers have designated times to gather the things left and certain things are kept and cataloged.

This is not unusual, and happens more often with recent deaths. I am not a McCain fan but this is part of military tradition.

[null and void]

At Riverside, The Arlington of the West, we are allowed to put a cone with flowers or an American flag on Dad’s grave. Everything else is promptly removed. I suppose they might catalog other debris.

Riverside is a clean, neat, orderly, and dignified place befitting those who served.

[The_Media_never_lie]

I feel the urge.......but I will not!

[Parley Baer]

“Doesn’t look like they have good grounds keepers....what a mess there.”

Too many people taking a leak there and it is killing the grass.

[LucyT]

[libh8er]

Thank goodness he is six feet below instead of five feet above.

[ScottinVA]

Some of those coins appear to be military unit coins.