Throwback: in 2021 Kamala visited the site where John McCain was shot down in Vietnam

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HANOI - Vice President Kamala Harris laid flowers Wednesday at the Hanoi memorial site where late Sen. John McCain was shot down in 1967 by the North Vietnamese when he was a Navy fighter pilot.

Standing in the pouring rain, Harris noted that Wednesday marked three years since McCain died from brain cancer on Aug. 25, 2018.

The vice president visited the memorial after concluding her bilateral meetings with Vietnam’s Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and President Ngyuen Xuan Phuc, part of her one-week trip through Southeast Asia.

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On the banks of the Ho Truc Bach Lake in downtown Hanoi. Monument A stone sculpture of a person with arms raised and head lowered. To the right of the person is USA and a star. To the left of the person is the text in Vietnamese.

"t?i h? Trúc B?ch quân và dân th? dô Hà N?i b?t s?ng phi công John Sidney McCain thi?u tá không quân thu?c l?c lu?ng h?i quân hoa k? dã lái chi?c may bay A4, b? b?n roi t?i nhà máy di?n yên ph? d?y là m?t trong 10 chi?c máy bay b? b?n roi cung ngày"

Approximate translation: On 26 October 1967 at Truc Bach Lake, the army and the people of Hanoi captured pilot John Sidney McCain, a Major in the air forces of the US Navy, who flew the A4 plane, which was shot down at the Yen Phu power plant. This was one of ten aircraft shot down that same day."

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