Saving Uncle Jimmy: A Veterans Day Remembrance
The bookends of Sen. John McCain’s volunteer-driven 2000 presidential campaign — a World War II veteran and a high school senior — greeted and seated a cold, frazzled Seattle reporter arriving late for a McCain town meeting in Lebanon, N.H. As I watched the event — McCain was beginning to take off in the Granite State’s primary — my Greatest Generation host conjured up a much-appreciated cup of cocoa. I went to thank the guy when the event ended, and he insisted in filling me up with coffee before the long drive back to Nashua. What followed could be called the greatest conversation. This spry gentleman, a political neophyte working his