U.S. presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama came together Thursday night for half-hour appearances at a TIME-sponsored forum on national service at Columbia University in New York.
The presidential candidates put aside partisan politics as the nation remembered the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
McCain took the stage first with moderators Time Managing Editor Rick Stengel and Judy Woodruff of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), a non-profit public broadcasting television service with 354 member TV stations in the United States.
Both candidates were asked similar questions relating to the 9/11 terror attacks, the promotion of national service among various others.
The forum is part of a two-day summit meant to promote national service. Nearly 500 leaders from business, foundations, universities and politics met to "celebrate the power and potential of citizen service" and lay out a plan to address "America's greatest social challenges through expanded opportunities for volunteer and national service," according to the organizers' Web site.
The two presidential candidates agreed to put aside partisan politics Thursday. They appeared together in New York to lay a wreath at ground zero, where the World Trade Center towers collapsed after two airliners hijacked by al-Qaida operatives plowed into them on Sept. 11, seven years ago.
Source: Xinhua
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