Now, for a little good news regarding the dismal campaign for the presidency of the United States.
Both major-party nominees — Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton and Republican Donald J. Trump — have agreed to suspend campaigning for a day.
That day will be Sept. 11, which happens to be the 15th year since the terrorists attacked the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and crashed a third jetliner into a Pennsylvania field.
An aside: I hesitate to use the word “anniversary” to define this event … if you get my drift.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/trump-clinton-september-11-campaigns-227559
We all remember how we heard the terrible news. We all remember the horror, the shock, the grief, the sickening feeling we felt as we watched the events unfold on that terrible day.
That day ought to be a day of reflection over what happened and a day of solemn prayer for the nation that continues to fight on against the evil forces that seek to destroy us.
It has become something of a tradition since 9/11. President Bush and Sen. John Kerry suspended their campaigns in 2004, as did Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain in 2008; indeed, Obama and McCain appeared together at an event at Ground Zero in lower Manhattan. InĀ 2012, President Obama and former Gov. Mitt Romney held events, but those eventsĀ memorialized the victims of the attack.
We need not hear the candidates’ yammering on this solemn date.