Editor, Gazette-Journal:
Monday, on Presidents’ Day, a small group of people gathered on the lawn of Liberty Square in Mathews to express their displeasure with the state of events in our country. Meanwhile, in Gloucester, at the Middle Peninsula Breakfast Club, a group of men who had joined hundreds of thousands of others to do the same thing—to “peacefully and patriotically let their voices be heard” a little over four years ago were telling their stories of the travails they endured as a result of being in Washington, D.C., for the ‘Stop the Steal’ Rally on Jan. 6, 2021 before finally being pardoned on President Trump’s inauguration day.
Like the folks in Mathews, these patriotic Americans had gone to Washington to exercise their Constitutional right to voice their grievances about the unprecedented abnormalities of the 2020 election. They were caught up in an equally abnormal rally event where they, and loved ones were shot at with a variety of projectiles that caused mayhem. Their...