Loss still felt 14 years after OK City bombing

[SpartanDem]

Source: AP

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — It was 14 years ago when Doris Battle's parents were killed in the Oklahoma City bombing, just two of the 168 people who died during the nation's worst domestic terrorist attack.

"I can't go home and see him anymore," Battle said of her father, Calvin Battle, who died with her mother Peola when the Oklahoma City federal building was bombed on April 19, 1995. And Battle said the passage of time has not diminished the loss she still feels.

Battle was among 400 people who gathered Sunday to observe the 14th anniversary of the bombing of the nine-story Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, an attack that also injured hundreds of people. The explosion of a truck loaded with 4,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil tore the face off the building and caused millions of dollars in damage to other downtown structures.

Timothy McVeigh was executed in 2001 and Terry Nichols is serving multiple life sentences on federal and state convictions for their convictions in the bombing. Prosecutors had said the plot was an attempt to avenge the deaths of about 80 people in the government siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, exactly two years earlier.



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With the way that the Glenn Beck's of this world are fanning the flamees of hatred I really wonder how long before another one of this attacks take place.

[Stellabella]

1. Yep, people who say that grief fades with time are wrong.

You learn to live with it. My 96-year-old grandfather still got tears in his eyes when he talked about his mother, who died when he was 2.

[hlthe2b]

2. That is so very true....

Sadly, even in Alzheimers or other forms of senile dementia, those memories of loss tend to persist.

[roguevalley]

20. truly. it never does.

[Ezlivin]

3. "I really wonder how long before another one of this attacks take place."

As soon as the powers-that-be decide it's time to get the sheeple back in line, that's when.

[doctor jazz]

4. Hard to believe it's been 14 years. I was at Downtown Airpark in OKC having coffee when it blew up.

About a mile away...had just dropped off our airplane to get a new paint job and was waiting for my friend to fly in and
pick me up when it happened. Everyone in the little cafe jumped and we all thought someone had crashed a plane just
outside. We ran out and saw the smoke but still couldn't imagine what was going on until somebody turned on one of
the scanners and got the police frequency. It seems like yesterday.

[catrose]

11. I was working in an OK federal building in a nearby city

How fast can you say "lockdown?"

[doctor jazz]

17. I'm a little surprised they put 2 and 2 together that fast...I mean it wasn't like there was a lot o

similar previous incidents to go on...
did you hear suggestions to watch out for 'middle eastern' looking men? I heard a few muttered comments like that.

[DollyM]

19. has it been 14 years . . .

it doesn't seem possible. Oklahoma seemed like such a safe place, it really changed our world. I was working at a Hospice at the time when the call came in for Grief Counselors to go to the church where the family members were waiting to hear news on their loved ones. I don't think I have ever felt so overwhelmed in all my life. The sadness, fear and anger in that place was so tangible it was overwhelming. I finally turned the tv off after several days of nothing but the story of the bombing being on. My son who was 4 at the time kept looking at the tv and saying "who broke the building" and "why did they break the building" I didn't have any answers so I decided to turn it off and deal with my small son's questions at a later time.

[onehandle]

5. Timothy McVeigh: Registered Republican, NRA Member. nt

[zbdent]

7. and he'd probably be a real hero to the Righties of today

if it weren't for that picture of the fireman holding the body of the baby pulled from the wreckage ...

see Mannthrax Coultercaust ...

[onehandle]

15. Freepers refer to him as "that poor railroaded boy." nt

[underpants]

8. selective memory on terrorism

unless we are blaming Clinton of course

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[GoddessOfGuinness]

22. It's important for people to remember this these days...

...when talk of "terrorists" conjures images of middle-eastern men.

[hedgehog]

6. I think that Oklahoma City needs to be mentioned every time

one of these right wing narcissists opens his mouth. Newt Gingrich is making a new career out of going around claiming the Democrats are manipulating the Census. (Talk about hypocrisy! The Republicans deliberately gerrymandered Texas to ensure a majority in the House of Representatives!)

Someone out there is encouraging gun owners to believe that Obama is going to take their guns. Three Pittsburgh police officers are dead as a result!

[ellie]

9. I used to work with

reprehensible piece of shit who, after I said how terrible it was all those people died, including children, said, "Oh well. There shouldn't have been a day care there."

[bluesmail]

12. OMFG

[ninety lives]

10. We should never forget

We owe these people that much.

[47of74]

14. The tick turds of the right keep fanning the flames of hatred

The history of this day is lost upon them, and they right wing talking head tick turds may doom us all to repeat such awful history!

[Ian David]

16. Glenn Beck. Nuff said. n/t

[Skittles]

18. forever seared in my mind

:cry:

[Gemini Cat]

21. Me too.

I will never forget her.