Thursday, January 19, 2006

OKC Memorial

OKC Memorial


When Kaci was here we took she and Lane and Brenna to the OKC Bombing Memorial. We had been there once before but we didnt get to go into the museum...this time we walked though the museum. WOW what a moving thing....one day the truth of what really happened there will come out. Tim McVeigh got the easy way out....Recently here in OK there has been an uproar of people because the third suspect that has spent the last few years in prison is getting out. Now I didn't know there was a third so having seen that on TV was kinda a shocker for me....But here are more pics of the experience. There are a couple of links down at the bottom as well....they show more pics that are better than what I took. Remember these were taken in January and we haven't had rain in months. I could not take photos of the inside of the museum. Although I did take one then had this woman tell me in a very stern nasty way that that wasn't allowed...maybe some signs would be helpful! Anyways...here it is.....





There are 168 chairs representing the 168 people that died that day....they are also arranged I believe by the floor in which they were on...I can't find that pampthlet (SP) to make sure but I am pretty sure. There are large chairs and there are small chairs! It is quite moving.

This photo is a picture of the actual Murrah building!
It is an amazing thing to see. There are I believe two or
three walls still standing. I took some close up photos
of this BUT they didn't come out well.








This is Lane and Brenna at the reflection pool. He understands a lot more now!





Lane and Brenna at the childrens wall...what is so cool about this is these mostly were sent by children in the area from where I grew up! I thought that was awesome!

If anyone gets a chance to go though here...DO IT! Call me I will go back though it again!

http://www.oklahomacitynationalmemorial.org/index.htm

http://www.nps.gov/okci/gallery.htm