Veteran Reflects on Horror Shared Between 9/11 and January 6th as He Prepares for a Tense Inauguration
Fort Bliss, Texas — As the sun rose over the Fort Bliss military base on a fateful September morning in 2001, Aaron Thacker, then a young military police officer, felt the world shift beneath him. Fast forward two decades, the scars of that day, compounded by the sight of the U.S. Capitol riots on January 6, 2021, etched a permanent mark on his consciousness. Thacker’s experiences in the military had prepared him for many challenges …