On April 19, 1995 I was seeing patients in my family practice office in Tulsa Oklahoma when my medical assistant told me a bomb had exploded in Oklahoma City, 90 miles away. We didn’t have computers, cell phones, or internet so I turned on a radio office and immediately heard news reports that shocked and saddened me.
It was true. A massive bomb had exploded at the Federal building in downtown Oklahoma City, something I thought only happened overseas. Who would bomb a building in Oklahoma?
That day in Oklahoma City showed some of the best in our state and our country as people, some with no training, risked their lives to help rescue people who were injured and trapped inside. Firefighters and police came from all over the United States to help. People donated food and first aid supplies. I was proud to be an Oklahoman then and now, and still grieve for the loss we sustained that day.
And in this post, I wrote more detail about the event.
Remembering the Oklahoma City bombing April 19, 1995
April 19 is the anniversary of the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, which remains the deadliest domestic “homegrown” terrorist incident in the United States. I lived there in the 1970s while in medical school and residency at the University of Oklahoma Medical Center and visit frequently. These are…
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