Oklahoma City to mark 15 years since bombing

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By TIM TALLEY

Associated Press Writer

Updated: April 19, 2010, 8:55 am /

Published: April 19, 2010, 8:55 am

 

Survivors and family members of those who died in the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building will gather to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the attack.

 

Authorities expect hundreds of people to attend Monday's ceremony at the Oklahoma City National Memorial to remember the 168 people killed in the April 19, 1995, explosion. More than 600 others were injured in the attack at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.

 

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will speak during the ceremony scheduled to begin shortly before 9:02 a.m. - the time that the bomb detonated in 1995.

 

Attendees will remember the dead with 168 seconds of silence.

 

 

-I thought this was interesting cause the guy who blew up the building was local...like, he went to school with my parents. :lol: :freak: It seems like we don't like to talk about this around here. :P

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U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will speak during the ceremony scheduled to begin shortly before 9:02 a.m.

 

Heh, this leech on society is going to pretend like she could have prevented the bomb - if only she were in charge at the time it was detonated! If only the government had more power... to search, to spy, to steal, to imprison, to tax. If only! Then horrors like this would never happen.

 

Also, let's ignore the fact Timothy McVeigh was armed and trained by the US Military. That doesn't work well with the whole "OMG ANY LIBERTARIAN COULD BE A TERRORIST" line.

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I had a great uncle or cousin or something that I never met who died in that bombing.

 

 

Very, very sad day.

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I remember when that happened... I was a wee lad in 1st grade i think. Sad day.

 

 

Heh, this leech on society is going to pretend like she could have prevented the bomb - if only she were in charge at the time it was detonated! If only the government had more power... to search, to spy, to steal, to imprison, to tax. If only! Then horrors like this would never happen.

 

Also, let's ignore the fact Timothy McVeigh was armed and trained by the US Military. That doesn't work well with the whole "OMG ANY LIBERTARIAN COULD BE A TERRORIST" line.

 

Yeah... of course they'll mention something. Any probably somehow relate it to the Tea Party

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saw this sad picture in the paper in a related article the UK today. Turns out the child didn't survive :(

 

http://www.8thfire.net/images/okcfirefirghter.jpg (firefighter and child)