Sunday, May 30, 2021

It’s a Travesty to Compare the Capitol Siege to 9/11

It’s a Travesty to Compare the Capitol Siege to 9/11
  • More than 3,000 children never saw their parents again. 
  • On Jan. 6, Congress returned within hours.
"Democratic lawmakers want to establish a “9/11-style commission” to investigate the siege of the Capitol on Jan. 6. 
“I would like to see Jan. 6 burned into the American mind as firmly as 9/11, because it was that scale of a shock to the system,” commentator George Will said recently. 
The attempt to reconfigure the “domestic terrorist” narrative to fit the horrifying story of Sept. 11 is profoundly disheartening. 
These two events are fundamentally different in nature, scope and consequences. 
Mentioning them in the same breath not only diminishes the horror of what happened on 9/11; it tells a false story to the generation of Americans who are too young to remember that day nearly 20 years ago.
My brother, Charles “Chic” Burlingame, was the pilot of American Airlines flight 77. 
He was murdered in his cockpit at age 51 in a 6½-minute struggle for control of the airplane. 
Here is what I want these young people to know...Read all.

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