Under Fire
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WHEN PROTESTERS BEGAN breaking into the U.S. Capitol building during the January 6 riot, Representative Ruben Gallego, an Arizona Democrat and former Marine, instinctively jumped on a desk to give his colleagues advice on how to put on their gas masks and regulate their breathing.
In those chaotic moments, he admits now, he wished he had his military-issued gun. “I wanted my weapon, I wanted my Marines around me at that point,” he tells Newsweek.
In news stories at the time, Gallego was said to have performed heroically, staying calm and helping his frightened colleagues get to safety as rioters poured into the Capitol.
But in his new memoir (Custom House, November 9), Gallego goes back in time, detailing how a poor Latino student enrolled at Harvard ended up as an infantryman assigned to Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 25th
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