As noted in yesterday's post, today is the 250th anniversary of the battles at Lexington and Concord--the battles which are regarded as marking the start of the Revolutionary War.
Today is also the thirtieth anniversary of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. It is startling, to contemplate that it has been thirty years since the devastation in Oklahoma City.
One hundred sixty-eight people were killed in the bombing, in 1995. Several hundred people were injured. Nineteen of those who died were children; fifteen of the children were at a day care center in the Murrah building.
As the website history.com notes:
The blast was set off by anti-government militant Timothy McVeigh, who in 2001 was executed for his crimes. His co-conspirator Terry Nichols was sentenced to life in prison.
I hope to someday visit the Oklahoma City memorial--which, as Wikipedia notes, "honors the victims, survivors, rescuers, and all who were affected by" the bombing. The memorial is located on the site where the Murrah building previously stood.
