Families of the victims of those killed during the New York City terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 are calling out those who compared the January 6, 2021 Capitol …
Families of the victims of those killed during the New York City terrorist attacks on September 11,2001 are calling out those who compared the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot to the deadliest attack on American soil. Retired New York Deputy Fire Chief Jim Riches told Fox News that he was outraged when Democrats, their media supporters, and certain former Republicans claimed the Capitol riot was actually worse that 9/11. “It’s a shame,” Riches told the outlet. “Are they kidding me? 3,000 people died, plus we have more people dying from the air that was down there… They’re comparing it to score points politically. The families are really [angry]. When I talk to them, when they compare it to that, they find that outrageous.” Other family members of those who died 20 years ago also spoke to Fox about the ludicrous comparison, including Debra Burlingame, whose brother was piloting American Airlines Flight 77 when he was killed by terrorists who hijacked the plane and crashed it into the Pentagon. “It’s unfortunate because we’re coming up in the 20th anniversary,” Burlingame said. “There are a lot of young people who have no living memory of 9/11… When you have all these comparisons and analogies, which are inflated and ridiculous, it minimizes what actually happened, and that’s what’s happening here. It’s a deliberate ploy.” Burlingame also wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed about the ridiculous comparisons, writing that “It is deeply offensive and sad that the brutal and harrowing memories of the worst terrorist attack in American history are being deployed by political partisans.
