(UPDATE:  Multiple media members who were in the room say it was Lauren Boebert who yelled.)

There’s no reason to heckle the President of the United States during the State of the Union Address.  None.  The speech is a Constitutional duty of the President to update Congress on the status of the country.  The President is invited to Congress to make the speech; he is an invited guest in the House and he should be treated as such.

Putting that aside, the woman who yelled “13 of them”–a reference to the 13 Marines who died in a bombing during the US evacuation of Kabul as they helped civilians board flights out of the airport–needs to be censured by the House, not just reprimanded by the Republican caucus.

That woman–whom I believe to be Marjorie Taylor Greene–yelled that while President Joe Biden was discussing providing medical care to those veterans and members of the military sickened by notorious “burn pits,” places on military bases where myriad toxic materials are burned releasing toxins into the air that have been shown to sicken anyone around them.

The woman’s comment was not only distasteful, it shows that she was looking for a moment to shout out.  Biden’s statement deserved support, not scorn:  he was talking about serving our veterans sickened in the service of our country.  It wasn’t about anything in the least bit controversial; in fact, it was compassionate.

But to that woman–to that vile, hateful woman–she made it about herself by invoking the honored dead, the people who gave their lives to serve others.  They volunteered, putting themselves second to others, to the mission, and to their fellow Marines.

That woman made it about her, and on a night that was supposed to be about the nation.