This quote from a soldier made headlines in the US: “Yesterday dozens of senators and congressmen walked through our ranks, took photos, shook hands and thanked us for our service.

Within 24 hours they had no further use for us and banished us to the corner of a parking garage, ”one of the National Guardsmen was quoted as saying, who apparently felt he had been treated shabbily after President Joseph Biden's inauguration.

The outrage was huge.