McCain & Obama's 1-day peace...
Published: Thursday, 11 September, 2008, 01:40 AM Doha Time
NEW YORK: Seven years after the September 11 terrorist strikes, New Yorkers today will remember the attacks that killed more than 2,700 people with the destruction of the World Trade Center’s twin towers.
The city will observe the anniversary with renewed calls for vigilance against the constant threats of new terrorist attacks. Names of the dead will be read yet again.
The presidential nominees of both US major parties, Republic Senator John McCain and his rival, Democratic Senator Barack Obama, plan to attend ceremonies at Ground Zero, site of the destroyed towers.
Both candidates have agreed to call off their election rhetoric and suspend campaign television ads on that day out of respect for the dead from the 9/11 attacks, which targeted New York and Washington.
McCain and Obama issued a joint statement this week: “All of us came together on 9/11 – not as Democrats or Republicans but as Americans. We were united as one American family. On Thursday, we will put aside politics and come together to renew that unity.”
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