We continue to receive more news about the wounding and killing of Capitol Police officers and other people in the violent and destructive overtaking of the Capitol. We are learning more about the hours that people in the Capitol were terrified and feared for their lives.
A consequence of the violence was evident at the event for Officer Brian Sicknick in the Rotunda. The loss of his life of service brings sadness to his grieving family, his fellow officers, and his country. We honor those who put their lives in danger to protect us.
Slain U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick lay in honor Wednesday in the building he died defending, as colleagues and members of Congress paid their respects.
It was November 24, 1948 and the weather at Coolangatta was hot and fine and the surf calm as Bernie and his mate Mick stretched out on the beach and soaked up the sun. It was barely three years since the end of the Second World War and returned servicemen like Bernie were beginning to resume their civilian lives and enjoy the peace for which they had fought. Mick was giving Bernie a hard time on this day, Bernie having told him the previous evening that he planned to get engaged to a girl in Brisbane called Pauline. I told Mick that we were getting engaged and did he nag me. You have no idea what I had to put up with, Bernie wrote to his soon-to-be fiancé Pauline with his fountain pen in a neat, sloping hand.