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- Oklahoma
- "U.S.
Marks Anniversary of Oklahoma City Bombing." ...
"For each victim, a second of silence; 168 seconds in all." ... "Ten years
after explosives packed in a rented truck smashed into a federal building
in Oklahoma City, many hundreds of survivors and families of the dead were
among those who gathered to remember at the site today." ... "They were
joined by Vice President Dick Cheney and former President Bill Clinton,
who was in office when the entire northern face of the Alfred P. Murrah
Federal Building was sheared off at 9:02 on the morning of April 19, 1995.
Also present were 40 survivors of the even deadlier 9/11 attacks." -By
Terence Neilan -NYTimes
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- Oklahoma
- "Oklahoma
City Bombing Remembered 10 Years Later." ... "Mourners
in Oklahoma City stood still for 168 seconds of silence -- one for each
of the victims -- on Tuesday to mark the 10th anniversary of the bombing
of the Alfred P. Murrah federal office building by right-wing extremist
Timothy McVeigh." ... "The silence began at 9:02 a.m. (10:02 EDT/1400 GMT),
the exact moment of the blast on April 19, 1995." ... "Outside, on bronze
chairs erected to remember each of the victims at a memorial on the site
of the destroyed building, friends and family of the dead placed flowers,
photos and teddy bears to remember them." -By Ben
Fenwick -Reuters
via -Wired
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- Oklahoma
- "Silence
Recalls Oklahoma City Victims." ... "Children who
lost their parents in the Oklahoma City bombing recited the names of the
dead, and mourners gently laid bouquets on empty chairs symbolizing each
victim Tuesday as they observed the 10th anniversary of the nation's worst
act of domestic terrorism." ... "Across the street at the Oklahoma City
National Memorial, in the grassy field where the building once stood, 168
empty chairs were a solemn reminder of the carnage of a decade earlier.
Teddy bears were placed on miniature chairs representing the 19 children
slain in the building's daycare." -By Kelly Kurt -AP
via -Guardian.co.uk
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- Oklahoma
- "Oklahoma
City Survivors Rebuild Their Lives: Many Survivors
and the City Itself Are Growing Stronger Than Ever." ... "At first, the
divorce rate tripled among rescuers who witnessed the carnage and the suicide
rate jumped. Now there is a new ballpark, a new downtown and 100,000 new
residents." ... "Lavern McCloud's daughter, Nekia, is 14 now. The girl
with the sweet smile and gentle disposition doesn't say much. Nekia suffered
severe brain trauma as a result of the blast. She is developmentally delayed
and attends special-needs classes." ... ""She was walking and talking,
you know, at 4 years old," McCloud said. "And after that [the bombing]
happened she had to relearn everything all over — how to walk, talk and
everything."" (1, 2)
-ABCNEWS.com
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- Oklahoma
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- Executions
- "Oklahoma
City remembers bombing." ... "Timothy McVeigh was
executed for the attack on 11 June 2001." ... "Co-conspirator Terry Nichols
was sentenced to life in prison without parole last year." ... "The attack
was the worst act of domestic terrorism in US history and brought to the
attention of the American people the world of radical rightwing paramilitary
groups and their followers."
-BBC /News
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- Oklahoma
- "The
Force of Fear: A Decade After the Carnage In Oklahoma
City, Washington Can Still Feel the Blast." ... ""It hasn't only affected
O.K. . . . It's affected the U.S." So wrote elementary school kid Jim Shaw
in the close aftermath of the disastrous bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah
Federal Office Building 10 years ago, on April 19, 1995." ... "Shaw's signed
message, carefully printed on a ceramic tile, is one of hundreds that make
up a low wall setting off the "Children's Area" from the rest of the elaborate
memorial dedicated five years ago on the ground where the bombing took
place. The schoolboy's words succinctly explain why it's called the Oklahoma
City National Memorial." ... "The heavy terrorist weapon of choice
for Army marksman McVeigh, as we know only too well, was the truck bomb.
The rental truck left standing on Fifth Street directly in front of the
Murrah Building -- and directly under the second-floor America's Kids Child
Development Center -- was filled with about 4,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate
soaked in fuel and armed with commercial explosives and blasting caps."
-By Benjamin Forgey
-WashingtonPost
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