January 6, 2021. Michael Falone on duty at the US Capitol:
A half-year later, July 27, 2021:
Veteran US Capitol Police Officer/ Metro Washington DC police officer Michael Falone testifies about defending our Capitol and our Congress from the January 6 MAGA insurrectionists. Still recovering from seeveral life-threatening injuries He testified:
“What makes the struggle harder, and more painful, is to know so many of my fellow citizens, including so many of the people I put my life at risk to defend. . . are downplaying, or outright denying what happened. I feel like I went to hell and back to protect them and the people in this room. But too many are now telling me that hell doesn’t exist, or that hell actually wasn’t that bad.”
But Adam Kinzinger, US Air Force Pilot and US House Representative, responded tearfully, with encouragement to Michael andto the other two testifying officers who were present:
“ But you guys won! You guys held. You know, democracies are not defined by our bad days. We’re defined by how we come back from bad days.”
Furthermore, our nation is not defined by our bad days.
We are defined by how we recover, and how we move progressively forward, beyond those bad days. . . overcoming those infamous bad days of that treasonous assault of our Congress, our Capitol, our very Nation.
We shall overcome! Deep in my heart, I know, we shall overcome!
. . . with some serious help from our appointed defenders!"
Thank you, Michael. . . and all of our brave officers who defended our Congress, our Capitol on that day!
Sing it! You know the tune:
Oh say can you see, in the 2021 light
What we so proudly maintained
after a riotous fight.
That broad dome and wide steps
through the perilous fight
O’er the barricades we watched
were so gallantly retained!
As our Congress did dare, with teargas in the air,
giving proof through the fight
that our Congress was still there;
O say does that Capitol Congress remain
with our Presidency,
o’er the land of the free, Democracy!
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