24 years ago today...

[dreamflower02]

Today is the annual ceremony held each year at the Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial and Museum to memorialize the victims of the attack. It happened 24 years ago today at 9:02AM.

The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building[1] in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States on April 19

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[shirebound]

*holds your hand*

That memorial (and the one in Pennsylvania for Flight 71) is a place I longed to visit on our move east if we had only had the time.

"Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know." --Gandalf the White

[dreamflower02]

(((hugs back))) We've yet to visit it in person, but I always try to watch the memorial. It's very moving as the family and friends of the victims read out the names of all those who were lost.

[febobe]

I fear the same. I wish we weren't right about this, but I'm afraid we are. :(

On the other hand, I saw a photo from a Taoist giving his seat up so an Hasidic couple could sit together, and they then scooted over so a Muslim mother could nurse. All hope is not lost in the world, I believe.

*hugs*

[dreamflower02]

(((hugs)))

That is heartening.

[engarian]

I remember so well. I was on a buying trip, in the Southwest US, and I had the TV on, an unusual thing for me. The channels were completely filled with Oklahoma. Such a tragedy.

And yesterday was the 20th anniversary of Columbine. My college roommate's daughter was in the school that day and survived by standing on a toilet in one of the bathrooms, terrified.

It's so frightening, what people will do to others without thought.

*love*

- Erulisse (one L)