A photo of Rep. Kim cleaning the Capitol after the riot went viral. A year later, he’s still processing his thoughts as the son of Korean immigrants who uprooted their lives in search of a strong, secure country to call home that was not evident that day.
“When I saw my kids for the first time after Jan. 6, my oldest came up to me and hugged me and asked me if I’m doing OK. They know something happened, but I haven’t really talked to them about it,” Kim said. “That’s sort of the question now: How does Jan. 6 fall into the broader story of this country? How are we going to talk about it?”
Then-candidate Andy Kim plays a word game with his son as his wife, Kammy Lai, looks on with their younger son outside a polling place in Bordentown, N.J., on Nov. 6, 2018.In the year since Kim found himself clearing the damage in the Capitol, more than 700 of former President Donald Trump’s supporters, including many who aimed to overturn the election results, are nowA House committee tasked with investigating the events is preparing to present its findings in the coming months.
“They felt like we could walk in there. We had every bit as much of a right to walk into the building — the Capitol, the White House — as anyone else,” he said. The memories, Kim said, have prompted him to look at his work through a different lens, shifting his focus to how to heal from the events. “The issue wasn’t just about the storming of the Capitol. It was about just the divisions in our country,” he said. “And the fact that we live in a country where that type of violence against each other is possible. I actually think we’re in a worse situation than we were a year ago. I think the Jan. 6 tragedy didn’t bring us together as a country.”
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