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The impact of their sacrifice is wildly underappreciated

Posted on September 12, 2026 at 12:11:44 AM by ricomontoya (edited September 12, 2026 at 12:13:56 AM)

That plane would have destroyed the Capitol building. The smoldering remains would be *the* image we remember today.

Even more significantly, it would have killed hundreds of elected Representative and Senators. Congress was in session. The procedures for replacing deceased representatives vary from state to state, most taking weeks or months to elect replacements. There would have been a nonfunctioning Congress for a long time.

It’s hard to comprehend in these truly weird times how important it is for a functional Congress to exist. Pure chaos, smoldering Capitol. Those guys did way, way more than save several hundred lives.

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