It should have never happened in our country, but it did. The attack on the U.S. Capitol two years ago was an attempted coup, an attack on our democracy to try and stop a free and fair election. It certainly wasn’t a tour of the Capitol.
I knew that day, without a shadow of a doubt, that this took planning to get this kind of crowd together. It’s not normal behavior for anyone to crawl up the walls of any building, let alone the Capitol, then breaking into the building and putting the lives of the Capitol police in jeopardy, not to mention the members of Congress who were there to do their job.
And it’s sad to say, but I believe the violence was incited by the former president. There didn’t need to be a Jan. 6 committee to investigate how the day unfolded, but they had to be certain that the events of this day would become part of the historical record, as to never let this happen again.
Once again, I hear the words my father would always say, “Doesn’t anybody see what I see?” It’s pretty plain and simple.
Marianne Rossi-Brown
Greensburg