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Hank Naughton, Ronnie Shows: Why we attended President Biden’s inauguration
Hank Naughton, Ronnie Shows
The recent deadly and insurrectionist attack on the United States Capitol was a low point in American history. Democrats and Republicans who cherish the rule of law and nonviolence were horrified.
We believe the men and women who entered the Capitol Building wanted to intimidate and capture by force what was not theirs to take:our American democracy.
But as the son of a prisoner of war, captured by the Nazis during the Battle of the Bulge, and an Army veteran of multiple deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, we decided to attend the inauguration of President Joe Biden to declare that no American should be intimidated from visiting our nation’s capital. In fact, before the incident at the Capitol, neither one of us had committed to attend the inauguration.