The president Joe Bidenin an article published in the newspaper The Washington Postcalled on Americans not to forget the January 6, 2021 attack on Capitolsaying the country has a collective responsibility to remember the events of that day.

The article was published a day before Congress convened for the body to formally ratify the Republican nominee. Donald Trump as president and nearly four years after a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol in a failed attempt to block the ratification of his 2020 election defeat.

“We must remember the wisdom of the quote that any nation that forgets the past is doomed to repeat it,” Biden wrote. “We cannot accept a repeat of what happened four years ago.” He added that this time the process of sanctioning the election result will be peaceful.

Trump, who takes over the US presidency in two weeks, does not recognize his defeat in the 2020 election as legitimate and he and his allies have floated false theories about the events of January 6, 2021. He has promised to pardon people who were convicted of crimes related to the January 6 attack.

“There is an ongoing effort to rewrite – even erase – the history of that day. To tell us that we didn’t see what we all saw with our own eyes,” Biden wrote in the Washington Post.

“In time, there will be Americans who did not witness the January 6th uprising firsthand, but will learn from footage and testimonies of that day, from what is written in the history books, and from the truth we pass on to our children. . We cannot allow the truth to be lost.”