A moment of silence and medal ceremony highlighted a day of remembrance of the January 6 Capitol riot.

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President Joe Biden on Friday will mark the 2nd anniversary of the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol by honoring a dozen people who made “exemplary contributions to our democracy.”

Those receiving the Presidential Citizens Medal include Caroline Edwards, the first law enforcement officer injured by rioters, and Shaye Moss, an election worker in Georgia who said she received so many death threats and racist taunts she changed her appearance and went into hiding.

Many of the recipients had delivered some of the most gripping testimony during the congressional investigation into the attacks.

Edwards said she was “slipping in people’s blood.” Ruby Freeman, Moss’s mother who also helped count Georgia’s votes, said she left her home for two months on the FBI’s advice.

“There is nowhere I feel safe,” Freeman testified. “Nowhere.”

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