“On behalf of a grateful Congress, this plaque honors the extraordinary individuals who bravely protected & defended this symbol of #democracy on #Jan6, 2021,” reads the faux bronze stand-in for the real thing. “Their heroism will never be forgotten.”
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In Washington, a capital city lined with monuments to the nation’s #history, the plaque was intended to become a simple but permanent marker, situated near the Capitol’s west front, where some of the most #violent fighting took place as #insurgents breached the building.
But in its absence, the missing plaque makes way for something else entirely — a culture of forgetting.
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