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 Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, the second-longest-serving senator in history, lies in state in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington on Dec. 20, 2012. (Photo: AP) 
 
 WASHINGTON – Sen. John McCain will lie in state at the U.S. Capitol on Friday, a rare honor bestowed on only 31 people in 166 years. 
 
 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced the decision of congressional leaders from both parties Sunday, calling McCain "a great American patriot, a statesman who put his country first and enriched this institution through many years of service." 
 
 McCain died Saturday evening after a year-long battle with brain cancer. He was 81. 
 
 A formal ceremony will be held in the Capitol Rotunda at about 11 a.m. Friday, McCain's office announced, followed by an opportunity for members of the public to file by the senator's casket from 2 to 8 p.m. 
 
 The McCain family is planning funeral arrangements, which will include a full-dress service at Washington National Cathedral at about 10 a.m. Saturday and private burial at the U.S. Naval Academy Cemetery in Annapolis, Maryland, at about 2 p.m. Sunday. 
 
 The last person to lie in state at the Capitol was Sen. Daniel Inouye, president pro tem of the Senate, who died in office in December 2012. Others have included 11 U.S. presidents dating to Abraham Lincoln, including four who were assassinated; two vice presidents; six other members of Congress; three military leaders; and the unknown soldiers from World Wars I and II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. 
 
 The Rev. Billy Graham earlier this year became one of four people who have lain in honor at the Capitol, which is different from lying in state. Also included in that list were civil rights leader Rosa Parks and two Capitol police officers killed on duty. 
 
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 WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain, who died on Saturday at age 81, will lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda and receive a full dress funeral service at the Washington National Cathedral. 
 
 Mr. McCain, who served for two decades in the Navy after graduating from the Naval Academy and who represented Arizona in Congress for 35 years, will also lie in state at the Arizona Capitol before his burial in Annapolis, Md., a Republican official involved in the planning said. 
 
 The senator’s office said an official memorial schedule would be announced once funeral arrangements were finalized. 

 This photo taken on Jan. 3, 2018, shows Tran Trong Duyet, the former director at the Hoa Lo prison in Hanoi, showing a photo at his home in Haiphong of Sen. John McCain (bottom right). Nhac Nguyen/Getty Images 
 
 The former director of the infamous Hỏa Lò Prison, which is now a museum, has joined the string of people who are paying tribute to Sen. John McCain. Retired Col. Trần Trọng Duyệt, who ran the “Hanoi Hilton” where McCain was imprisoned as a prisoner of war for five-and-a-half years, says McCain’s strong views earned him his admiration. “I had a lot of time meeting him when he was kept in the prison,” he told Việt Nam News. “At that time I liked him personally for his toughness and strong stance.” 
 
 The former head of the prison said that he felt “very sad” when he heard the news about McCain’s death. “I would like to send condolences to his family,” he added. Duyet said he thinks most in Vietnam feel the same way considering McCain was instrumental in improving bilateral relations after the war. “Later on, when he became a US Senator, he and Senator John Kerry greatly contributed to promote Việt Nam-US relations so I was very fond of him,” Duyet added. 
 
 Even as he expressed fondness for McCain though, Duyet had previously denied that he or any other prisoners were mistreated. “There was no torture, Vietnamese people saved him,” Duyet said in an interview earlier this year. 
 
 Many in Vietnam, including Americans living there, went to a monument in Hanoi that remembers McCain’s capture to leave flowers and pay their respects. “On Oct 26, 1967, at Truc Bach Lake, the military and people of Hanoi arrested Major John Sidney McCain, a pilot of the American Navy’s air force,” reads the inscription on the sculpture depicting McCain’s capture. “I felt compelled to come out here and bring some flowers,” said Robert Gibb, an American in Hanoi. 
 
 A Vietnamese man places flowers for late politician John McCain, at a sculpture depicting the capture the then–Navy pilot whose fighter jet was shot down in 1967, near Truc Bach Lake in Hanoi on Sunday. NHAC NGUYEN/Getty Images 
 
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– It's not every day an interview in the Viet Nam News makes US headlines, but it's appropriate in the aftermath of Sen. John McCain's death. Slate picked up the article, which expresses condolences from retired Col. Tran Trong Duyet, who ran the Hoa Lo Prison where McCain was kept for more than five years as a prisoner of war. Duyet has long denied that McCain was tortured in the prison, and in his new comments he said he felt "very sad" to hear of McCain's death and remembered him fondly: "I liked him personally for his toughness and strong stance." The latest on McCain's funeral arrangements: McCain will lie in state at the US Capitol on Friday, with an 11am ceremony followed by a public viewing from 2 to 8pm. USA Today reports that in 166 years, only 30 people have previously had that same honor. Among those who have lain in state at the Capitol include 11 US presidents, two vice presidents, and the unknown soldiers from World Wars I and II and the Korean and Vietnam Wars. The last person to have had the honor was Sen. Daniel Inouye in 2012. The New York Times reports the honor is given to only the country's "most eminent citizens," and that McCain will be the 13th senator or former senator to lie in state. The practice actually began with a senator: Former House Speaker and Sen. Henry Clay was the first to lie in state in 1852.