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Just eight hours before kickoff in their opening Rugby World Cup match against Ireland, the US Eagles attended an emotional memorial service to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
Eddie O'Sullivan's 30-man squad and support staff filed into New Plymouth's St. Andrew's Presbyterian church as a group shortly before the service began, joining local residents, American rugby fans, local politicians and the US Marine Corps Pacific band.
David Huebner, the US Ambassador to New Zealand, sat alongside the players near the front of the church.
Huebner was one of only two people to speak during the service, paying tribute to the people who were killed and to the those who helped in the rescue of the injured and in the recovery in the 10 years since the attacks on New York and Washington.
"We watched live on television the brutal murder of 3,000 individuals ... and we reacted with near unanimous horror and sadness," Huebner told almost 1,000 people crowded inside the church on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/rugby-world-cup-2011/news/article.cfm?c_id=522&objectid=10751021
The USA team : http://www.nzherald.co.nz/rugby-world-cup-2011/index.cfm?c_id=1503006&page=team&teamID=51
Comrade Stalin
Eddie O'Sullivan's 30-man squad and support staff filed into New Plymouth's St. Andrew's Presbyterian church as a group shortly before the service began, joining local residents, American rugby fans, local politicians and the US Marine Corps Pacific band.
David Huebner, the US Ambassador to New Zealand, sat alongside the players near the front of the church.
Huebner was one of only two people to speak during the service, paying tribute to the people who were killed and to the those who helped in the rescue of the injured and in the recovery in the 10 years since the attacks on New York and Washington.
"We watched live on television the brutal murder of 3,000 individuals ... and we reacted with near unanimous horror and sadness," Huebner told almost 1,000 people crowded inside the church on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/rugby-world-cup-2011/news/article.cfm?c_id=522&objectid=10751021
The USA team : http://www.nzherald.co.nz/rugby-world-cup-2011/index.cfm?c_id=1503006&page=team&teamID=51
Comrade Stalin
