McCain to be honored for ‘sacrifice, service’

July 7, 2017 at 12:00a.m.

PHILADELPHIA

U.S. Sen. John McCain has been named this year’s recipient of the National Constitution Center’s Liberty Medal for his “lifetime of sacrifice and service” to the country, the Philadelphia museum announced Thursday.

Former Vice President Joe Biden will bestow the award to the six-term senator at a ceremony Oct. 16.

McCain joined the Navy in 1958 and rose to the rank of captain during his 22 years of service. In 1967, his plane was shot down over Hanoi, Vietnam, and he spent years in a Vietnamese prisoner of war camp.