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Took The Boy to the Murrah Bldg memorial today
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<blockquote data-quote="Shadowrider" data-source="post: 3134559" data-attributes="member: 3099"><p>I had parked my truck where the bomb truck was parked I don't know how many times while I went into the credit union. I had planned to go there that very morning but decided to go at lunch the day before. Knew several of those killed and some of the survivors. My dad was a personal friend of the credit union manager and was in the ANG with her late husband.</p><p></p><p>I heard about it on the radio but thought not a lot about it. I thought is was a gas main that blew or something. A programmer and friend came out and told me he was leaving to go to the hospital, that his wife was injured. I knew she worked in the Federal courthouse building across 4th street from it. I thought oh **** I better go look! So I went up to the conference room, took my shop boots off and walked in to watch the TV coverage. I got in there at the very moment that the News 9 chopper was rounding to the front side of the building and what I saw pretty much floored me, I did have to sit down. I said that I knew for certain that it was a planned attack based on the damage and had no clue how big a bomb would be needed to do that kind of damage, but whoever it was was serious. That building had always fascinated me as I thought it was just an example of government waste in how heavily it was constructed. The amount of steel and concrete in it was kind of mind boggling to me. I never knew until after that it was designed to be "bomb proof".</p><p></p><p>The day before when I left it was right at 12:00 noon. The church bells were ringing as I walked out the back side as I often did when I left. The back which was actually over part of the underground parking to the building was like a park with big trees and lots of planters and I noted how peaceful it was to be in the middle of downtown, but it was especially beautiful that day. I had no clue it would be my last time to be able to take that walk.</p><p></p><p>I've been down there and walked around it, but I still haven't made it through the memorial to see the exhibits but my wife has. Don't know if I ever will go. Maybe some day.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shadowrider, post: 3134559, member: 3099"] I had parked my truck where the bomb truck was parked I don't know how many times while I went into the credit union. I had planned to go there that very morning but decided to go at lunch the day before. Knew several of those killed and some of the survivors. My dad was a personal friend of the credit union manager and was in the ANG with her late husband. I heard about it on the radio but thought not a lot about it. I thought is was a gas main that blew or something. A programmer and friend came out and told me he was leaving to go to the hospital, that his wife was injured. I knew she worked in the Federal courthouse building across 4th street from it. I thought oh **** I better go look! So I went up to the conference room, took my shop boots off and walked in to watch the TV coverage. I got in there at the very moment that the News 9 chopper was rounding to the front side of the building and what I saw pretty much floored me, I did have to sit down. I said that I knew for certain that it was a planned attack based on the damage and had no clue how big a bomb would be needed to do that kind of damage, but whoever it was was serious. That building had always fascinated me as I thought it was just an example of government waste in how heavily it was constructed. The amount of steel and concrete in it was kind of mind boggling to me. I never knew until after that it was designed to be "bomb proof". The day before when I left it was right at 12:00 noon. The church bells were ringing as I walked out the back side as I often did when I left. The back which was actually over part of the underground parking to the building was like a park with big trees and lots of planters and I noted how peaceful it was to be in the middle of downtown, but it was especially beautiful that day. I had no clue it would be my last time to be able to take that walk. I've been down there and walked around it, but I still haven't made it through the memorial to see the exhibits but my wife has. Don't know if I ever will go. Maybe some day. [/QUOTE]
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