A potentially huge story according to an unnamed but longtime McCain family friend:
John McCain's mother was born in the outback of Australia.
She met McCain's father in Sydney and the rest, as we say, is history.
The elder Mrs. McCain has confided in her friend many times over the years saying:
When I chose to name him John Sydney, I didn't realize it could brand him, maybe damage him in some way. I just missed Australia so much. It was my culture, my ethnicity. So when he joined the military, John Sydney made a very, very wise decision to change the Y to an I, all legally mind you.
( link to Dade District Court, Division of Name change, reveals fuzzy document from 1953 )
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