• Day 4--Oklahoma City Memorial Museum

    May 7, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 88 °F

    We visited the OKC Memorial Museum on Monday. I remember the tragedy well. I was in Day #1 of my re-certification for PALS at Cook Children's Hospital on April 19, 1995 when we heard about the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. About 2/3 of the building was destroyed--including the day care on the 2nd floor. The doer was a home-grown terrorist, Timothy McVeigh, who planned it as a retribution for the Branch Davidian debacle.

    The memorial is very moving. It starts out describing the day as just like any other--until it wasn't. Read more here: <https://www.history.com/topics/oklahoma-city-bo…;
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