It was a nice little thing they have done there. There are little chairs to symbolize each of the people that died in the explosion, a reflecting pool, a little orchard, and things like that. Tara was inpressed at how thoughtful the memorial was.
I wonder how many people really member the Oklahoma city bombing. It has been more than 15 years now since it happened, and 9/11 clearly dwarfs it in scope. Do people out there really member what happened? They had a bunch of ceramic tiles that little kids had done and sent, some of the kids were as little as two years old. Do those kids even remember making those tiles and sending them?
I remember where I was when the bombing happened. I was on my mission, serving in Saugus, California. All the missionaires in the apartment decided to go down to Shakey's pizza for lunch. (All you can eat pizza.) When we got there, the TVs were all on CNN, which was showing the coverage of the bombing. It was kind of shocking at the time. We all went first thing the next morning to the Red Cross to give blood. One of the missionaries in the apartment had never given blood before, and was kind of nervous about it. He was a motormouth to start with, and jabbered non-stop the whole time he was giving blood. He had everyone in the place laughing, which was kind of good, because the only thing anyone else was thinking about was the bombing...
Tara's brother told her that the memorial was almost shut down a couple of years ago because of a lack of funding. It sound like the place is on their own for donations, and don't get any federal money. (They do have two National Park rangers on site, but it sounded liek the site itself was on it's own for upkeep.)
Anyway, the site was interesting, those who find themselves in Oklahoma City in the future should stop for a few minutes to look around, even if they are just driving through. 30 minutes total would do it, unless you want to go into the museum too.
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