"More than 15,000 union workers and relatives of service members rallied at Ground Zero Thursday to show their support for American troops fighting in Iraq. Among the crowd was Joan Stewart of Houston, who rushed to the rally after hearing about it while visiting here. She held up a photograph of her stepson, Cpl. Heath Long, 28, who is assigned to a Marine helicopter unit in Iraq. "I feel so proud," she said. "I am from Brooklyn originally, and I am proud to be an American and a New Yorker. It makes me feel great to be an American." Many in the crowd along with politicians who spoke saw a connection between the war and the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center. "The war started right here on Sept. 11, 2001," Gov. George Pataki told the gathering, which included dozens of firefighters in bunker gear mixed in with carpenters, electricians and ironworkers."
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