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April: The sad month

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John Connor

John Connor

Lifer
Peeking out the window that Wednesday morning, the sky was cloudless and a vivid blue. These are the incongruous details you always seem to remember when something terrible happens. On the television, the local CBS affiliate suddenly broke into programming with a shot from the station’s helicopter as it flew toward downtown Oklahoma City, 10 miles away from where I lived. “There’s been some kind of explosion,” the anchor announced, as the screen showed a thick plume of black smoke rising from the skyline. As the helicopter got closer, the smoke engulfed a single building, as if it were simply a bad fire. But then the aircraft banked and circled around, cutting through the smoke, and suddenly you could see it: The entire facade of a nine-story building had been blown off.
It was the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, a glass and concrete structure that, truth be told, I had never even noticed before, and half of it was gone, ripped apart by what investigators later discovered was a 7,000-pound bomb made of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, diesel fuel and other explosives packed into a Ryder truck.
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http://news.yahoo.com/oklahoma-city-bombing-boston-marathon-links-tsarnaev-mcveigh-173848448.html


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After running in 2013 and witnessing it all while from the Finish Line, I will be running for my third straight time on Monday. Screw them
 
I remember this like it was yesterday. Its easy to dismiss as insignificant since 9/11 but when it happened it was major.

My older daughter had just started daycare and I can clearly recall the feeling in the pit of my stomach thinking how the parents who lost kids there must have felt.
 
seems like a pointless article if you ask me. the TLDR is "what made someone seemingly good do something terrible? we may never really know"

that's true of so many terrible things
 
I lived right outside OKC at the time. A girl that went to school with me lost her dad, she lived 4 or 5 houses down. My dad was involved in the initial search and rescue. My mom worked a few blocks away and the explosion blew the doors open in her store.
 
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