One of the attendees at the Washington protest identified himself as Matthew Hoh, who said he is a member of Veterans for Peace. Hoh said he [traveled] from North Carolina to attend the rally. He said he was in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and he now regrets his involvement.

“For people to say that this [the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in Israel] is another 9/11 and then not to say, ‘My God, what have we learned? What will we do? What will come from that?’ After everything that we did following 9/11, and the regret and shame that so many of us carry from that,” Hoh said.

“If we don’t take a stand against it, then when we look back on this and ask how it happened, we will have only ourselves to blame.”

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