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OP-ED: (Kellen Squire writes about his time serving as a nurse in an emergency room in Charlottesville on August 12, 2017. Squire is seeking the Democratic nomination for the House of Delegates in District 55.)
It's been five years since I wrote about the aftermath of the Unite the Right attack on Charlottesville, Virginia, that left Heather Heyer dead and dozens more injured.
We keep careening from crisis to crisis, pandemic to pandemic, which makes time pass both agonizingly slowly and at incredible speed. But I can still see the first ambulance flying around the street corner near our ER, followed by four or five cars driven by bystanders and good Samaritans, all full of patients.
