Does the Military Have an Extremism Problem?
from Up First from NPR
by NPR
Published: Sun Jan 05 2025
Show Notes
As Congress meets tomorrow to certify the results of the 2024election, it also marks the 4-year anniversary of the attack on the Capitol. The participants of the riot on January 6, 2021intended to disrupt the certification process of the 2020election results. When it was all over four people were dead, 140 law enforcement officers were wounded and there was nearly $3 million in damage.
There were people from all walks of life at the Capitol that day, but one thing that many of them had in common? Military ties. That reality is something that the military is still grappling with today. On this episode of The Sunday Story from Up First, we are joined by NPR Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman and producer Lauren Hodges, who were both at the Capitol reporting that day. Last year they released a new investigation with NPR's Embedded podcast called "A Good Guy," about an active duty Marine who participated in the Capitol riot.
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There were people from all walks of life at the Capitol that day, but one thing that many of them had in common? Military ties. That reality is something that the military is still grappling with today. On this episode of The Sunday Story from Up First, we are joined by NPR Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman and producer Lauren Hodges, who were both at the Capitol reporting that day. Last year they released a new investigation with NPR's Embedded podcast called "A Good Guy," about an active duty Marine who participated in the Capitol riot.
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