In a final message read by an aide on Monday, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) reflected on his years of service to the United States and urged Americans to “not despair of our present difficulties.”McCain died Saturday at the age of 81, a day after announcing his decision to discontinue his cancer treatment. “I have often observed that I am the luckiest person on earth,” the late senator wrote in a letter read posthumously by adviser Rick Davis. “I feel that way even now as I prepare for the end of my life.”“Like most people, I have regrets,” he added. “But I would not trade a day of my life, in good or bad times, for the best day of anyone else’s.”

Source: Huffington Post August 27, 2018 18:33 UTC