Biden's plan for Inauguration Eve: Lights, church bells for COVID lives lost

[babylonsister]

Empathy on a grand scale-how I've missed this!

https://www.axios.com/biden-memorial-covid-inauguration-d4addc1e-fa4c-4c4e-a3ed-f68b2fc060a7.html

1 hour ago - Politics & Policy
Biden's plan for Inauguration Eve: Lights, church bells for COVID lives lost
Mike Allen


To set the tone for his inauguration the next day, President-elect Biden will lead a memorial to remember and honor lives lost to COVID-19, with church-bell ringings and light shows across the country on Tue., Jan. 19, at 5:30 p.m. ET.

Driving the news: The Presidential Inauguration Committee is announcing Thursday morning that a D.C. ceremony, led by Biden, will feature lights around the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool — the first time lighting around the Reflecting Pool has memorialized American lives lost.

"PIC is inviting cities and towns around the country to join Washington, D.C., in illuminating buildings and ringing church bells at 5:30 p.m. ET [15 minutes after sunset] in a national moment of unity and remembrance," the committee says.

PIC communications director Pili Tobar said in a statement: "The inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris represents the beginning of a new national journey."

"However, in the midst of a pandemic — when so many Americans are grieving the loss of family, friends, and neighbors — it is important that we honor those who have died, reflect on what has been one of the more challenging periods in the nation’s history, and renew our commitment to coming together to end the pandemic and rebuild our nation."

[malaise]

1. What an excellent gesture

Imagine the contrast with Killa Con's nazi protests

[marble falls]

2. Donnie coulda done something like this and it wouldn't cost anything and would have had some ...

... great grafting opportunities. He's so stupid. He kept himself from being an even worse President by being the worst one he could be.

[babylonsister]

6. I bet the thought never crossed his mind.

He doesn't give a flip.

[reACTIONary]

8. He would have preferred ...

... a military parade. What a loser.

[MyOwnPeace]

14. Absolutely!!!!

and all of the lights shining on him!

[niyad]

3. Caring and compassion. How wonderful to see it again.

Liked the way the announcement said, "one of the more challenging periods" . No names, because the memorial is about our loved ones.

[tavernier]

4. Gees Joe, that's a dumb way to get rich.

Didn’t you learn anything from the Rump?

Beautiful way to do inauguration eve. I hope many churches around the country join the bell ringing.

[Botany]

5. Leadership

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[Karadeniz]

10. That still makes my eyes well up...

[Raven123]

7. Rightly focusing on what's important

[jmowreader]

9. It is going to feel so strange...

...having a respectable First Couple.

[Karadeniz]

11. If every town across America does this, some people who've been in denial will get the message.

That'll make it easier for Biden to implement his plans.

[AllaN01Bear]

12. im sleepin in. sleeping in to mrrow and going to clean my apartment from top to bottom.

[CaptainTruth]

13. Doing it on Jan 19, the death of the Trump administration, is interesting.

Trump will still be POTUS. I guess the thought is that it will mark the pending death of the Trump administration & put the deaths of so many Americans squarely on HIS shoulders?

Just wondering why not on the 20th, after Joe had taken office, when we could commemorate all those deaths & at the same time celebrate a new beginning?

[MyOwnPeace]

15. As for the timing -

an even more stinging kick-in-the-bal, er, face to the "current" president!

[Captain Zero]

17. The 19th is the right date to do this.

Remembrance first. So Joe's Inauguration Day can be the new beginning of the hard work to dig out of the hole Trump has dug for us.

[ad121rome]

16. Compassion

Caring and compassion for our fellow human beings will set the tone for the next 4 years. I hope church bells ring constantly between now and Jan 20th, this will commemorate the 340,000 lives lost to Covid 19.

[Evolve Dammit]

18. Thanks to Biden for paying tribute and not ignoring the victims as 45 et al do.