Oklahoma City National Memorial

[BTs_GhostSniper]

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!

[X1|MARCO]

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