Thursday, October 30, 2014

[sad, but a must-see at the same time]

I wanted to do a separate post just about  this..whilst I was in Oklahoma City I went to the Bombing Memorial museum. A very sad part of history, but one well worth seeing if you are ever in Oklahoma City.

You go to the top floor and it shows how it was just a normal day, almost 20 years ago(April 19th 1995). Then you walk into a room which represents a similar room where a meeting was going on right across the street from the Murrah building. You hear the recording of the meeting, then all of a sudden there's an explosion and they flash up pictures of all of the victims.

Then you go  to the second floor and it takes you through the minutes, hours, and days after the bombing,the investigation and the arrest of Timothy VcVeigh and Terry Nichols.

What's jarring is the effects-glasses,purses and the like-recovered from the rubble. They have a clock that is permanently frozen at 9:02, the exact moment of the bombing.

There's a lookout point where you can stand and look at the memorial-a chair for each person who died.

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