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McCain Address

My fellow Americans, whom I have gratefully served for sixty years, and especially my fellow Arizonans,

Thank you for privilege of serving you the rewarding life that service in uniform and in public office has allowed me to lead. I have tried to serve our country honorably. I have made mistakes, but I hope my love for America will be weighed favorably them.

I have often observed that I am the luckiest person on earth. I feel that way even now as I prepare for the end of my life. I have loved my life, all of it. I have had experiences, adventured and friendships enough for ten satifying lives, and I am so thankful. Like most people, I have regrets. But I would not trade a day of anyone else’s.

I owe that satisfaction to the love of my family. No man ever had a more loving wife or children

he was prouder of than I am of mine. And I owe it to America. To be connected to America’s causes – liberty, equal justice, respect for the dignity of all people – brings happiness more sublime than life’s fleeting pleasures. Our identities and sense of worth are not circumscribed but enlarged by serving good causes bigger than ourselves.

Fellow Americas’ – that association has meant more to me than any other. I lived and died a proud American. We are citizens of the world’s greatest republic, a nation of ideals, not blood and soil. We are blessed and a blessing to humanity when we uphold and advance those ideals at home and in the world. We have helped liberate more than people from tyranny and poverty than ever before in history. We have acquired great wealth and power in the process.

We weaken our greatness when we confuse our patriotism with tribal rivalries that have sown resentment and hatred and violence in all the corners of the globe. We weaken it when we hide beside walls, rather than tear them down, when we doubt the power of our ideals, rather than trust them to be the great force for change they have always been.

We are three-hundred-and-twenty-five million opinionated, vociferous individuals. We argue and compete and sometimes even vilify each other in our raucous public debates. But we have always had so much more in common with each other than in disagreement. If only we remember that and give each other the benefit of the presumption that we all love our country we will get through these challenging times. We will come through them stronger than before. We always do.

Ten years ago, I had the privilege to concede defeat in the election for president. I want to end my farewell to you with the heartfelt faith in Americans that I felt so powerfully that evening. I feel it powerfully still.

Do not despair of our present difficulties but believe always in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here. Americans never quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We make history.

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나는 맥케인 의원의 죽음을 앞두고 미국 국민에게 전한 편지를 좋아한다. 그 어떤 유명한 연설보다도 그의 편지에 감동받았다. 그래서 그 이유의 생각해 보니 막상 금세 떠오르지 않았다. 다시 한번 그의 글을 읽었다. 그의 글을 특별하지 않다. 특별한 교훈이나 시적인 비유가 있는 것도 아니다. 하지만 단 한 가지 그의 마음은 진심이었다. 노환으로 죽음을 앞두고 지나간 시간을 돌아보는 그는 한치의 후회도 없었다. 감사의 마음으로 가득했다. 국민에게 봉사할 수 있어서 그 대상이 미국이어서 영광이었다고 행복하다고 느꼈다. 그렇지만 국가에 대한 자부심은 오만하지 않았고 라이벌 국가나, 국가를 위협하는 것에 대한 것에 대한 조언과 당부는 피상적이지 않았다. 기도하는 듯한 마음이 느껴졌다. 나는 한국인이지만 맥케인 의원을 가진 미국이 부러웠다. 미국은 상당히 훌륭한 정치인을 가지고 있었다. 그의 빛이 사그라들고 미국에 대한 안부를 걱정한다. 정성을 다해서.

I like McCain's last letter. So when I thought about the reason, I didn't immediately come to mind. I read McCain's article again. His speeches are not special. There are no great lessons or poetic analogies. The only thing he had was a sincere heart to serve the people. Looking back on his last life ahead of his death, he felt that he was honored and happy to be able to serve the people and that the United States was the one. Their pride in their country was not arrogant, and their advice and requests for threatening rival countries or countries were not superficial. I felt him praying of his mind. I am Korean, but I was envious of Americans who had Congressman McCain. America had great politicians. As he was dying, he worries about the well-being of America. with all sincerity.

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