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Two weeks before Joe Biden became America’s second Catholic president, and Kamala Harris its first black, Asian-American and female vice-president, supporters of the now-ex President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol in a failed but deadly effort to keep their man in office. To deal with the threat, some 25,000 members of the National Guard, America’s military reserve, were deployed to Washington. Two days before Biden took office, at a charity event in honour of Martin Luther King day, Matt Miller, a 52-year-old Washington native, remarked that the security reminded him of the aftermath of the attacks of 9/11. By 5pm he had visited the tomb of the unknown soldier in the Arlington National Cemetery and taken a brief, closely guarded walk in place of the traditional inaugural parade.