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2 campaigns’ sparring halts for 9/11 solemnity

By DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE STAFF FROM WIRE REPORTS

Posted: September 12, 2012 at 5:53 a.m.

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Ava Kathleen Schmoelzer, 7, of Stamford, Conn., places flowers for her aunt on the wall overlooking the South Tower reflecting pool on the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York on Tuesday.

President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney declared a fleeting truce for partisan digs Tuesday as the nation remembered the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, but campaign politics crackled through even their somber observances.

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