(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) – Senator John McCain has been buried at the United States (US) Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, after a small private ceremony.
A military flypast was performed with the squadron one plane short, to symbolise the Senator.
McCain graduated from the elite Naval Academy in 1958, later serving in Vietnam as a fighter jet pilot.
Family and friends were joined by his classmates and the current midshipmen for a service at the school’s Chapel.
It caps a week of memorials for McCain, who died on 25 August, aged 81, from the effects of brain cancer.
