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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsApril 19, 1995. OKC bombing. 168 dead, including 19 children. And the nuts
seem to be getting stronger and more unhinged every single day.
underpants
(183,165 posts)April 19 & 20
niyad
(114,178 posts)wnylib
(21,859 posts)underpants
(183,165 posts)wnylib
(21,859 posts)Celerity
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electric_blue68
(15,055 posts)niyad
(114,178 posts)wnylib
(21,859 posts)Also, April 19, 1775. "Where once the embattled farmers stood and fired the shot heard 'round the world."
niyad
(114,178 posts)wnylib
(21,859 posts)niyad
(114,178 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(16,972 posts)[link:|
The Oklahoma City Firefighter holding little Bailey, who ended up passing away. I saw her chair at the memorial site in 2009.
R.I.P. lost souls of Oklahoma City...
niyad
(114,178 posts)Ilsa
(61,721 posts)and McVeigh says, "collateral damage."
A friend working in a bank down the street said his tower shook and everyone was wondering if there had been an earthquake.
niyad
(114,178 posts)Ilsa
(61,721 posts)we invaded Iraq because I was so pissed.
We've seen some wonderful come and go and sadly pass away over the last two decades.
DU has more than two and a half registered users since I joined, maybe even three times as many.
Sympthsical
(9,210 posts)Really interesting article about her experience.
https://apps.bostonglobe.com/special-projects/2022/10/road-trip-america/the-photo-of-an-oklahoma-city-bombing-victim-ill-never-forget
No one should have to experience that.
wnylib
(21,859 posts)people who insist that photos of dead children after a school mass shooting should be published. To see the mangled body of your own child everywhere you turn has got to be a hideous nightmare.
niyad
(114,178 posts)would wonder what kind of toll it might take on them for it always to be out there.
electric_blue68
(15,055 posts)Torchlight
(3,502 posts)The weather, temperature, environment inside the building, the shirt I was wearing, etc. It snapped me into a darker realization of who we (a nation? a culture? a species?) often are, and the hideous paths we often seem to be taking. I took no lessons from that day, and still feel cold thinking about it.
Takket
(21,754 posts)Fuck right wing terrorists.
Initech
(100,174 posts)On the anniversary of the Waco massacre, which was basically sending a "do not fuck with us" kind of message.
ProfessorGAC
(65,570 posts)I took the day off to wait for the doctor to call. With that type of news on the horizon, being at work was a bad idea.
Watching something (don't remember what) and breaking news.
Switched to CNN and watched it most of the rest of the day.
So, it's been 28 years today that my diagnosis was confirmed. Fortunately, i ended up with a one in 10 thousand case in terms of modest effects.
I got over that news a lot better than a lot of those families who lost loved ones that say in OKC.
niyad
(114,178 posts)the last three were really bad.
ProfessorGAC
(65,570 posts)...as I was on the day of the bombing in OKC.
Burning feet, blind in left eye. No progression to speak of.
Pretty good fortune.
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