In an op-ed President Joe Biden wrote for The Washington Post dwelling on January 6 titled “What Americans should remember about Jan. 6,” he suggested that the date should be among those America never forgets. Biden fears that its history will be rewritten, warning that “we cannot allow the truth to be lost.”

“Thousands of rioters crossed the National Mall and climbed the Capitol walls, smashing windows and kicking down doors. Just blocks away, a bomb was found near the location of the incoming vice president, threatening her life. Law enforcement officials were beaten, dragged, knocked unconscious and stomped upon. Some police officers ultimately died as a result,” Biden wrote.

“And we should commit to remembering Jan. 6, 2021, every year,” he continued. “To remember it as a day when our democracy was put to the test and prevailed. To remember that democracy — even in America — is never guaranteed.”

According to The Post, Biden expanded on his remarks in the op-ed telling reporters in regard to President-elect Donald Trump specifically, “I think what he did was a genuine threat to democracy, and I’m hopeful that we’re beyond it.”

Just days earlier, Biden stole headlines with his decision to honor the leaders of the January 6 committee, outspoken anti-Trump advocate Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson, with the Presidential Citizens Medal.

In his decision to honor Cheney, Biden specifically highlighted her role in the January 6 committee, writing, ‘Throughout two decades in public service, including as a Congresswoman for Wyoming and Vice Chair of the Committee on the January 6 attack, Liz Cheney has raised her voice—and reached across the aisle—to defend our Nation and the ideals we stand for: Freedom. Dignity. And decency,” according to Daily Mail.

President Biden and other Democratic leaders have used the term “threat to democracy” frequently when discussing President-elect Donald Trump, and it appears, despite the attempts made on Trump’s life which many say was caused by the rhetoric, they do not plan on letting the phrase get lost to history when it comes to Trump.

In his op-ed, Biden urged those responsible for preserving history to make sure they do so for January 6 writing, “In time, there will be Americans who didn’t witness the Jan. 6 riot firsthand but will learn about it from footage and testimony of that day, from what is written in history books and from the truth we pass on to our children. We cannot allow the truth to be lost.”