David Von Drehle: John McCain’s message of honor

In a matter of months, maybe weeks, maybe days, the president of the United States will try to speak for the nation on the death of Sen. John McCain III. At 81, McCain has been the model of stoic virtue in reckoning with his terminal brain cancer, so this prediction will neither surprise nor offend him. “What is your life?” asks the Book of James, Chapter 4, verse 14. “You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.”Because President Donald Trump makes u