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Column: Why's it so hard to do the right thing and honor the true heroes of Jan. 6?

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Rep. Zoe Lofgren : Donald Trump will visit the scene of a crime on Monday , vowing to preserve and protect the Constitution .

She says Trump and his acolytes have spent years rewriting history and burying the uncomfortable truth.

The attempted cover-up extends even to the Capitol , where House Speaker Mike Johnson has single-handedly thwarted legislation calling for a plaque honoring the law enforcement officers who battled pro-Trump rioters to protect the Capitol and its inhabitants.

The heinous events of that day are "so politically inconvenient" that Johnson and fellow Republicans are "silling to basically s— on their own Capitol Police Department ," she says.

Erasure is a step toward forgetting, not erasing, nullifying.

It's important not to whitewash history simply because it makes some people squirm or undermines a party's agenda.

"Their heroism will never be forgotten," the memorial tablet reads below a rendering of the U.S. Capitol .

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