Tonight on the news I watched footage of a memorial service at the Alfred Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, as today is the 13th anniversary of the bombing. This brings back memories to me, as Mary Lee at ages 5 and 6 was deathly afraid of Timothy McVeigh. You know how kids get things in their heads sometimes, and somehow in the years following the bombing she picked up on this story as we saw it on the news. We tried to assure her that he was in jail out west, that he could not possibly get out, but until he was finally executed she was afraid of him. I wonder how many other little children in our country were equally afraid. A few weeks ago we became aware of another result. The girl that our nephew married back in February is the granddaughter of a couple who were killed in the devastation--former missionaries, a dental professor and his wife, an older couple who made the simple decision to take care of a business matter that morning in the Federal building. So, because of one man's twisted and sinful thinking, a lovely young lady was unable to have her grandparents at her wedding thirteen years later.
The repercussions of such a selfish act range far and wide.
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This is one of those Do you remember where you were when. . . happened?
I was driving back from Pittsburgh where Julie and I had visited her sister during spring break. I was driving the day after this happened, but we hadn't heard about it until listening to the news on the radio. I also had just returned from Russia six days before.
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