McCain's Missing First Daughter
While Meghan and Bridget have been in the limelight this election, Sidney McCain, John McCain's oldest daughter who bears her Dad's middle name, is nowhere on the trail. Last I heard, she was a publicist in the music industry.
Her relationship with Dad is good now, but he was captured as a POW when she was nine months old. She didn't get to see her father again until she was seven years old, according to this feature in the New York Times by Jennifer Steinhauer:
“I didn’t really have a father to miss because I didn’t know what a father was,” said Sidney... “I was very spoiled at the time in the sense of complete strangers would come up and give me things like a P.O.W. bracelet or a stuffed animal.”Also, didja know that Mccain has THREE adopted kids -- not just one? He adopted Doug and Andy Shepp, his two oldest sons, when he married their mother. That's not mentioned in the press much, so I guess you need skin of a different shade and an amazing "we saved her from a horrible fate" story for the media to fuss over your adoption. But isn't the adoption of two small stepsons aged five and three a different kind of rescue story?
She said that when Mr. McCain came home in the spring of 1973, “I remember my dad just squeezing me and not wanting to let me go.”
“It was very overwhelming at the time,” she said.
2 comments:
Yes, it is, and it's one of the few things I like about McCain: that he was willing to adopt Douglas, Andrew, and Bridget. What I don't like is the way the first three kids not only got dumped by McCain when he got back from Vietnam, but the way the national press seems to dump them now. It's as if the first marriage, with three children and a disabled wife who kept the home fires burning all alone while he was a POW, capped by wide-open adultery (getting the next marriage license before the first divorce was final!), just never happened.
Thanks for helping set the record straight.
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