Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial Ladd-Whitney Monument
It was April 19, 1995 at 9:03 that the lives of thousands were affected by one single
explosion. The explosion took the lives of 168 men, women, and children. The explosion
physically injured 600 individuals and emotionally injured numerous amounts of people
around the world. The explosion took place at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in
Oklahoma. A staff writer for a newspaper was quoted stating " the bomb was color
blind" ( Yumi Wilson, Chronicle staff writer, Langston University). It didn't matter what
age, race, or background the victims came from. The one attribute that all of the victims
had in common was the fact that they were all innocent targets affected by the hostility
of hate and terrorism. The primary individual responsible for this tragedy is a man named
Timothy McVeigh. A 27yr old white man who possed a great hostility toward the
government. He constructed a deadly bomb made of fertilizer and fuel......
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