Memorial & Museum For Federal Building BombingApr 7, 2011
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One end of the reflecting pond and the "bookend"
Survivor Tree
| Thursday we headed back into OK City downtown to tour the museum and monument for the bombing of the Federal Building. WOW! What a touching memorial and museum. The community did a wonder job of remembering this very tragic day. Through out the entire museum tour you had a lump in your throat and they knew to have boxes of tissues placed through out. The memorial is something to see. It is like 2 bookends one says 9:01 the other says 9:03 with a reflecting pond in between. This was placed in the area where the truck was setting with the explosives. The chairs to the south of the reflecting pond represent the 9 floors (rows) of the building and each chair had the name of the person killed and is setting in the area of that floor where that person was at the time the bomb went off. The hardest part is the smaller chairs. They represent the children. Two of the children’s chairs that were there were for the pregnant mothers that were killed. There’s a large tree that was right next to the building. Somehow this tree survived. They call it the Survivor Tree. It was beautiful this time of year where it was just starting to come back to life with leaves. I got a picture of it in the reflecting pond. Quite a sight. We were not there at night but they say to see the memorial at night is beautiful also. All the chairs are lit and the “bookends” have lights on shining on them. |
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