I’m sorry, but someone has to say it. With the perspective of a decade, I think Todd Beamer should have stayed in his seat.
If the Capitol building had gotten blowed up along with most of the congresscritters, we’d have had a few months of legislative confusion, followed by a quick emergency election, and wound up with a whole new crop of legislators with the old way of doing business annihilated in the smoking rubble. We would almost certainly not be in our current mess.
And they would have killed me and a whole lot of my friends, who never did anything to harm you or yours. There ARE true public servants in DC, few and far between, maybe, but they exist. They (we, on 9/11/01) are human beings who did not, do not, deserve to die horrible deaths at the hands of terrorists.
The US Constitution and the freedoms it protects give you the ability, the responsibility, to replace your representatives if they do not meet your standards. You do yourself a grievous dishonor if you wish death on your own countrymen.
God Bless you and take care.
What a dope!
Ridiculous.