On the Road;Oklahoma City, OK, Oklahoma City National Memorial

To my readers--I am just getting in to using pictures so I must apologize that my pictures are in backwards order. I can't change them and I can't get rid of the duplicate. Susan, can you help me from the Greek Islands?












Oklahoma City
October, 5, 2009

Oklahoma City National Memorial

This museum in memory of the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building is extremely well done and truly heartfelt. At the opening to the park are large shiny black arches. The first picture shows their mission statement. picture is the The next picture is for the time of the bomb.

The third picture shows some of the 168 chairs laid out in an outdoor park, one mpty chair for each dead victim.

There is a picture of the south side of the building which was left externally as it was. There are black bricks where the windows had been (all windows within blocks were blown out), the exposed red bricks show a detachment, and at the very tip you can see where the bricks were blown out of the wall.

After the explosioon children from all over the world sent painted ceramic tiles in memory of the children who were killed. I can't help but include trhree from these outdoor walls because they all touched me show deeply.

Inside the museum where you were not allowed to photograph were pieces of the building crunched every which way. There are cases with shoes, watches, keys etc that were found in the rubble.At the time time of the explosion there was a water board meeting going on across the street. It began punctually at 9a.m. and was recorded. You hear the applicaton for water usage and then you hear the explosion and sounds that follow.

There is video of McVeigh's Ryder truck passing on the street and there are newscasts from all over the world that the visitor can view. There are testimonies of some survivors.