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It is hard to believe that another five years have passed. Five years ago I wrote about the 15th anniversary of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.  Today we mark the 20th year since that horrible day. As we get further and further away from that fateful day in history, I am reminded of the importance of telling the story to the next generation so they don't forget. Tell them about where you were. Tell them about the people you knew that were lost. Tell them everything you know Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum We were talking about this at the office the other day as most Oklahoman's do around April of each year. My assistant was with us and I commented that she wasn't even born yet when the bombing happened. Even though that statement was true, she reminded me that even her history is tied to this fateful day. You see, her mother went into labor with her on April 19, 1995. A great resource for history and information about the bom...

As we approach the 15th anniversary of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building we are all forced unwittingly to remember that terrible day in Oklahoma City history. In fact, using the word anniversary seems inappropriate but I don’t know what other word to use so I will use it with a lower case “a” I worked for the same Engineering and Surveying firm that I do now. We had our offices on 50th and Pennsylvania near 50 Penn Place, about 4 miles away. That morning at 9:02 I was on the phone with a client and our building shook and the all-glass building rattled like someone had run into it. We all heard it and felt it but didn’t know what it was until a few minutes later in the break room. I can recall the first image I saw was brought to me from KWTV’s Kelly Ogle, who is also a lifelong Oklahoman. Kelly was in the Channel 9 chopper and flew over the smoke filled rubble and said “it looks like half the building was gone”. It was. Kelly first though it may have been a gas ...