Oklahoma City Memorial - April 3, 2011

As we head East from Arizona to return home to North Carolina on April 3, 2011, we stopped at Oklahoma City and visited the Memorial in downtown OK City dedicated to the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in OK City Oklahoma on April 19, 1995. Here is our visit in a few photos and some comments. It had tremendous impact on Judy and I. The Museum next to the Memorial was excellent and captures the day, the disaster and the innocent  victims and its city.

The Gates of Time you will view are two gates. The first Gate has the time of 9:01 (AM) or the time before the bomb attack.

The Gates of Time are at opposite ends of

the Reflecting Pool at the Memorial. This gate is

inscribed 9:01.

This Gate of Time is inscribed 9:03.

This gate represents the moment forever

changing all of us to move from Horror

to Hope.

The time of the bomb attack

was  9:02

A view of many of the 168 chairs

representing the victims taken of which 19

children (the smaller chairs) were lost.

The Survivor Tree lives today after the bomb blast.

It is a symbol of life continuing with Hope.

The Museum is directly behind the Survivor Tree.

The Fence protects the Memorial.

It has become a place to leave Tokens of

Love with more than 60000 collected

and stored in archives.

April 19, 1995 Frontal

of the OK City Murrah Federal Building

Let us never forget.

April 3, 2011