| − | Controversy has been raised over McCain's [[divorce]] from his first wife of 15 years, Carol Shepp, and subsequent remarriage to Cindy Lou Hensley five weeks later. Despite claims in his 2002 memoir, McCain's divorce petition states that he cohabited with his first wife for the first nine months of his relationship with Cindy. <ref>http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-divorce11-2008jul11,0,6546861.story?page=1</ref> However, he is currently still with Cindy after 28 years of marriage. His son, John Sidney IV, is a Midshipman at the [[United States Naval Academy]], Annapolis, and his son James is a non-commissioned officer in the [[United States Marine Corps]], who is serving in [[Iraq]] as part of [[Operation Iraqi Freedom]].
| + | McCain has been married twice. His first marriage, to Carol Shepp, ended in [[divorce]] in 1980 after 15 years of marriage. McCain admitted responsibility for the breakup.<ref>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/rules021299.htm</ref> His second and current wife is Cindy Lou Hensley, to whom he has been married for 28 years. His son John Sidney IV is a Midshipman at the [[United States Naval Academy]], Annapolis, and his son James is a non-commissioned officer in the [[United States Marine Corps]], who is serving in [[Iraq]] as part of [[Operation Iraqi Freedom]]. |