'I Learned How to Take Hard Blows'

摘要

John Mccain was never a pretty boxer. "I whaled away," he recalls. Short and scrawny at 127 pounds, he was underestimated by classmates at the U.S. Naval Academy. But he charged his opponents, throwing punches until someone hit the ground. During his first summer at Annapolis in 1954, that someone wasn't him. Mc-Cain and his teammates faced off against other battalions in weekly bouts.