Last weekend, millions of television viewers around the country watched as memorial tributes were broadcast honoring two revered Americans who died in August — Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul and a civil rights activist, and Sen. John McCain, a former presidential candidate and Vietnam War hero.Thousands of fans of Franklin and well-known celebrities crowded into a Detroit church for a six-hour service attended by the Revs. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson and President Bill Clinton.Many thousands more from both …