April 19, 1995. OKC bombing. 168 dead, including 19 children. And the nuts

[niyad]

seem to be getting stronger and more unhinged every single day.

[underpants]

1. I'm always a bit more wary on these two days

April 19 & 20

[niyad]

2. Same here.

[wnylib]

12. Why the 20th?

[underpants]

13. Hitlers birthday

[wnylib]

14. Thanks. Did not know that.

[Celerity]

24. Also it is weed day, lol, 4/20

HIGH HOPES

How Nike’s 4/20 sneakers went from experiment to an iconic tradition

The brand’s weed-themed shoes have become popular not just among skaters, but also sneakerheads, collectors, and, of course, stoners.

https://www.inverse.com/input/style/nike-sb-420-shoes-reverse-skunk-dunk-weed-sneakers-strawberry-cough-white-widow-skate-shops

[electric_blue68]

30. Oh. Maybe I knew, but forgot. I forget the date of OK City but Not the event itself!!

[niyad]

16. Columbine.

[wnylib]

20. I thought Colimbine was the 19th.

Also, April 19, 1775. "Where once the embattled farmers stood and fired the shot heard 'round the world."

[niyad]

21. Columbine 20 april 1999. BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill 20 April 2010.

[wnylib]

23. Well the oil spill at least was accidental.

[niyad]

25. Well, except for the slipshod maintenance, etc.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. This Pulitzer Prize winning photo comes to mind.

[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]

4. Heartbreaking, and so very powerful.

[Ilsa]

5. First responders openly crykng at the devastation and inhumanity,

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]

6. Belated Happy 20th DU anniversary to you!

[Ilsa]

7. Oh, thank you! I hadn't realized it! I remember joining after

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]

10. The mother of that child went through it because of that photo

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]

15. That article is a good response to

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]

17. ONLY if the parents give their consent would it be acceptable. But then I

would wonder what kind of toll it might take on them for it always to be out there.

[electric_blue68]

29. I figured it was that. Tearing up. Such a ghastly and tender photo.

[Torchlight]

8. My brain keeps a snapshot of the moment I heard about it.

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]

9. These are the same people telling us today abortion is "murder"

Fuck right wing terrorists.

[niyad]

18. Exactly.

[Initech]

11. Scary to think that Trump held a rally in Waco.

On the anniversary of the Waco massacre, which was basically sending a "do not fuck with us" kind of message.

[niyad]

19. Exactly.

[ProfessorGAC]

22. Yep. Today Is The Day I Got My MS Diagnosis

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]

27. So glad that you beat the odds. I had a friend who made it 19 years, only

the last three were really bad.

[ProfessorGAC]

31. Basically, I'm The Same...

...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.

[moondust]

26. "Deconstructing the administrative state."

[niyad]

28. . . .