Thu April 10
NEW YORK (Reuters) - About 25,000 construction workers gathered to show support for U.S. troops in Iraq on Thursday at the site of the fallen World Trade Center, where many of the same working men and women dug through the rubble after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
Clad in hard hats, blue jeans and workmen's boots, the ironworkers, carpenters, pipefitters and others filled three lanes of a highway that runs along the site now known as "Ground Zero." They waved flags and chanted "USA, USA, USA."
"We are here today to do one thing, to send a message, the message of what America really thinks. It stands behind our president, George W. Bush," said Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association that represents city police officers, in a speech to the crowd.
http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=2546013
NEW YORK (Reuters) - About 25,000 construction workers gathered to show support for U.S. troops in Iraq on Thursday at the site of the fallen World Trade Center, where many of the same working men and women dug through the rubble after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
Clad in hard hats, blue jeans and workmen's boots, the ironworkers, carpenters, pipefitters and others filled three lanes of a highway that runs along the site now known as "Ground Zero." They waved flags and chanted "USA, USA, USA."
"We are here today to do one thing, to send a message, the message of what America really thinks. It stands behind our president, George W. Bush," said Patrick Lynch, president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association that represents city police officers, in a speech to the crowd.
http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=2546013
