John Sidney McCain III was born Aug. 29, 1936, in the Panama Canal Zone. His father and his grandfather were both U.S. Navy admirals. (Bottom, from left: Sr., Jr. and III.)"My grandfather was a naval aviator, my father a submariner," McCain writes in "Faith of My Fathers," his 1999 memoir. "They were my first heroes, and earning their respect has been the most lasting ambition of my life."
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