Alfred P Murrah Memorial

This is a picture I have taken from the website and copied it here. This is an aerial photo taken after the bombing of the Alfred P Murrah Building. Credit for the photo goes to the http://www.hq.usace.army.mil/cepa/pubs/aug01/murrah.jpg

This inscribed on the Gates entrance to the Memorial and I have copied it here:

We come here to remember those who were killed, those who survived and those changed forever. May all who leave here know the impact of violence. May this memorial offer comfort, strength, peace, hope and serenity.®

When we were on our way to Oklahoma City it was of particular interest to see the Alfred P Murrah Memorial. We remember hearing and seeing the devastation that a person caused on that fateful day in April, 19,1995. We watched the reactions on the TV that day & thought how could a person be so mad at the government that they want to harm so many innocent people. The result is a memorial to the people left behind. To tour and listen to the Park Ranger as they retell the story of before and after the tragedy. When you walked through the before gate - 9:01 and leave at the 9:03 gate you are met with silence, reverence and a sense of ah.... One must go there to truly see the memorial and to feel the presence and power left behind of a resilient people of Oklahoma City. The memorial has 168 chairs representing those lives lost in the building. These chairs are arranged with the number of people lost on each of the 9 floors of the building. The second floor housed a daycare centre and you can see more than one chair with an family name inscribed. We saw two chairs with one family last name. And another two chairs with the same family last name. So we are assuming that some family may have lost there children to this tragedy. In the evening the chairs are all lit up from within the glass enclosed base of each. I have included one picture in the set although it isn't that good just to show them lit. Pictures can be seen at http://community.webshots.com/user/ramit56 under Alfred P Murrah Memorial The website for the Alfred P Murrah Memorial is http://www.oklahomacitynationalmemorial.org/ and also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_P._Murrah_Federal_Building