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OKLAHOMA CITY NATIONAL MEMORIAL |
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Along one wall of the memorial a sort of People's Memorial has become a permanent fixture since the bombing. |
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Friends
and relatives of the victims and others have left an amazing collection
of memorabilia attached to the wall and the chain link fence.
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Letters to loved ones, photos, news articles, stuffed animals, flowers; this wall serves as a shrine to those killed and people seem to react to it the same way they do to the Viet Nam War Memorial in Washington, D.C. A big statue of a crying Jesus stands across the street with his back to this wall, and the site of the bombing. |
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"And Jesus Wept" is the inscription at the base of this statue. |
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Tall walls symbolically mark the perimeter of the destroyed building. The wall at this end shows the time a minute before the bombing, 9:01. Remains of the building can be seen to the right in this photo. |
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A reflecting pool is the centerpiece of the memorial. The wall you see at the end of the pool marks the minute after the bombing, 9:03. |
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Each victim is represented by a sculpture shaped like a chair. These glow with illumination at night. The chairs are in rows, each row representing a floor of the building. Little chairs represent the children. Five chairs sit outside the rows, representing the five who died outside the building. |
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A plaque tells the story of the tree in the photo on the left. The tree is now surrounded by a plaza overlooking the reflecting pool. |
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| This concludes your visit to the site of the Murrah Federal Building | |
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