Title: Oklahoma City National Memorial Post by: BTs_GhostSniper on July 13, 2005, 07:53:14 pm I was in my home town of Oklahoma City, OK, USA this weekend (trying to escape from the hurricane that luckely missed where I live on the Mississippi Gulf Coast), and while I was there I took my family to visit the Oklahoma City National Memorial. Wow, it was a really emotional experience. I recommend anyone that ever passes through that part of the country to go take a look. The website for the Memorial is here:
http://www.oklahomacitynationalmemorial.org/ Just for a little background: I was in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, the day the bomb blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. I was serving in the Air Force and was up at Will Rogers World Airport, 17 miles from the building, when the explosion occurred. It felt like a small earthquake, even at that distance. The windows and doors rattled, the ground shook, it was like someone broke the sound barrier right overhead. The last time I was in Oklahoma City was about 3 months after that, in July 1995. This weekend I decided to take the family on up since I hadn't been there in 10 years, and I am so glad we went to see the Memorial. -GhostSniper Out. P.S. If any of you have any questions about the bombing, the Memorial, or Oklahoma City in general, feel free to ask! Title: Re: Oklahoma City National Memorial Post by: X1|MARCO on July 14, 2005, 09:00:52 pm True, GS, they did a nice job on the Memorial. I live bout 25 miles South of OKC in Norman and was up there that fateful day. In fact every Wednesday at 9:00am i used to deliver the artwork for an ad agency to the printer directly across the street from the Murrah bldg. Fortunately for me, we were late that day and i was enroute, needless to say i never made it. I got there about an hour later, while people were still running around in shock - all i can say is i saw stuff i never care to see again. That one event changed everything in so many ways - AND there are still to this day unanswered questions about... well..... i won't even go there..
Anyway wish i had known you were in town, I would have driven up and had a beer with ya MARCO....out |