David Brooks:

Yes.

And it's for values. And one of the things that's interesting about McCain is, though he fought in Vietnam, he's not really a Vietnam person. He's a World War II person. He missed the '60s. He was in Hanoi Hilton. So all the culture war and all the values shift, which was a lot about self, he never had that.

For him, it was about country, about self. And I have been traveling around the country recently. And I found so many people are really attached to their town or their community or their ethnic group, not so many who are attached to nation.

But that World War II generation and the people — the values of John McCain, he really was attached to nation. And it really was service to nation above Arizona, above anything else, above the Navy. It really was service to nation and a sense of, we're all in the same nation, we must at — all at some level be brothers with one another, and then a life of true sacrifice for the nation.

I mean, it's worth pointing out the guy could not comb his hair. When they broke his arm, he could not get his arm — his arms up for the rest of his life to comb his hair. And so that's just a daily bit of sacrifice he did for the country as a whole.