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McCain, Obama pay tribute at Ground Zero.
McCain, Obama pay tribute at Ground Zero
Published: September 12, 2008
NEW YORK — For one rare day, presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama made Ground Zero their common ground, free of politics and infused with memory.
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Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was in her home state of Alaska to attend an Army ceremony to send her eldest son, Track, off to Iraq.
Obama and McCain intersected later in the evening, at a Columbia University forum on public service. The candidates' sessions were separate, joined only by a handshake.
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