John McCain and his first wife

Wonder why I never heard this story during the campaign.....

While visiting her family in Philadelphia on Christmas Eve 1969,[15] Carol McCain was driving alone in snowy, icy conditions. Approaching an intersection on an isolated country road, she skidded and collided with a telephone pole, was thrown from the car into the snow, and went into shock. Some time later she was found and taken to Bryn Mawr Hospital;[10] she had two smashed legs, a broken pelvis, broken arm, and ruptured spleen. She spent six months in the hospital, and over the course of the next two years had 23 operations,[10] which rebuilt her legs with rods and pins,[11] as well as extensive physical therapy.[17] She did not tell her husband about the accident in her letters to him, believing he already had enough to worry about,[10] and the U.S. State Department told a surgeon who operated upon her not to mention anything to the press, lest it worsen the treatment for John McCain.[18] Businessman and POW advocate Ross Perot paid for her medical care[19] and she remained grateful to him, later saying: "The military families are in Ross's heart and in his soul ... There are millions of us who are extremely grateful to Ross Perot."[20] Years after John McCain found out about Perot's help, he said "we loved him for it."[21] She was interviewed on the CBS Evening News in 1970, and said that Christmas had no meaning for her without her husband present, but that she carried on with it for the sake of their children.[15]
The McCains were reunited upon his release from captivity on March 14, 1973.[22] She was now four inches (ten centimeters) shorter, in a wheelchair or on crutches, and substantially heavier than when he had last seen her;[19][11] he was also visibly hampered by his injuries and the mistreatment he had endured from the North Vietnamese.[23] Carol and John led an active social life together, entertaining other naval personnel at their Orange Park home and Ponte Vedra beach house.[27] However, the McCains' marriage began to falter as he had extramarital affairs.[28][27]
By 1979, the McCains were still living together.[19] In April 1979, John McCain met and began a relationship with Cindy Lou Hensley, an Arizona special education teacher and Hensley & Co. heiress.[19]
John McCain pushed to end the marriage;[19] Carol McCain was described by friends as being in shock from the developments.[19][7] The McCains stopped cohabiting in January 1980;[7] John McCain filed for a divorce in February 1980,[7] which Carol McCain accepted at that time.[19] When asked by a friend what had gone wrong, she said, "It's just one of those things."[19] After she did not respond to court summonses,[11] the uncontested divorce became official in Fort Walton Beach, Florida on April 2, 1980.[32][7]
John McCain would later say, "My marriage's collapse was attributable to my own selfishness and immaturity more than it was to Vietnam, and I cannot escape blame by pointing a finger at the war. The blame was entirely mine."[28] Carol McCain would later say: "The breakup of our marriage was not caused by my accident or Vietnam or any of those things. I don't know that it might not have happened if John had never been gone. I attribute it more to John turning 40 and wanting to be 25 again than I do to anything else."