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April 19....
1775: the Revolutionary War breaks out as General Gage sends a force to seize militia supplies, and the Americans resist.
1993: the final day of the Waco siege. FBI armored vehicles fill the Davidians' building with CS gas and methylene chloride, a fire breaks out, and over a hundred die.
1995: Timothy McVeigh sets off his bomb at Oklahoma City, killing 168.
2015: the Washington Post remembers one of the above.
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They did miss those two other noteworthy events in American history ... the media needs to be more balanced these days.
After the FBI tried to asphyxiate the Branch Davidians, the FBI set fire to their home then fired upon anyone trying to flee the inferno.
The FBI tactical manual seems to have been cribbed from the nastier parts of the Saga of Burnt Njal.
There's no statute of limitations on murder, so we can still hope, very faintly, for the killers to be brought to a measure of justice.
Also the start of the Warsaw Uprising
Never again.