Biden is consoler in chief to Trump's commander in chief at Shanksville 9/11 memorial

The stage had been stripped bare and the flower arrangements removed by the time Joe Biden arrived at the Flight 93 memorial, three hours after President Trump had addressed a Sept. 11 ceremony on the very spot.

The Democratic nominee laid a wreath with his wife, Jill, beneath the name of one of the crew members of the doomed flight and then chatted quietly with the victim's relatives.

“It never goes away,” he said to Cheryl and Camal Homer, “Does it?”

The two candidates for president made pilgrimages on Friday to the marble Wall of Names at the crash site where 40 passengers and crew died in a rural Pennsylvania field. But they did it in their own styles, offering different visions of how a president can relate to the nation.