In his words "I thought it must be a gas explosion, but then I realized there is no gas in the Murrah building".
Many poignant scenes and quotes that day, but I'll never forget the realization that something awful had happened in that guy's voice.
RIP all who lost their lives that day.
I was on active duty in the Navy, coimng to work at Naval Air Station North Island Ca near Coronado.
I was chewing out my boss for having a weak spine, blaming her screw ups on me.
I was waiting at the traffic light near my house in OKC. It actually shook my car - I thought someone had hit me from behind. I turned into my driveway just as the DJ said something about a big boom from downtown. Did not turn on the TV until my brother called from GA to check on us.
I will never forget sitting at the little league ballpark that night. The rec.dept felt that the kids should have some "normalcy". No one was paying attention to the games - all the parents had either radios or tiny tvs. It was surreal.
On my ship in the Persian Gulf.
I was sitting in a nurse's station at a nursing home charting, the residents were gathered around a big screen TV. My hubby called me (it was his birthday and he was out of town).
Then the news came on about the bombing. I remember just being dumbfounded and darkly teasing my hubby that his birthday was a bad omen.
I was sitting in a hospital room waiting for my husband to come out of surgery. The weird thing was, as he was coming out of the anesthesia, back in the room, I was watching the coverage of the bombing, and he later told me that he kept thinking the hospital had been bombed!
Anyway, very sad day.
susie
I was in Houston on April 19th, 1995. Ironically I am now sitting in an office in OKC only a few blocks from the bombing site. I read somewhere that McVeigh bombed the Federal Building in order get back at the ATF agents that were involved in Waco. Those particular agents came out of the Houston office whose building was across the street from where I worked in Houston.
I had just gotten home from school. I think I was trying to find 'Darkwing Duck' on tv, but news about the bombing was on instead.
I was home sick that day. It was quite eery for me because I was also home sick that same day two years earlier (when the Waco Massacre happened).
I was in 7th grade.
Prayers for all that have been affected.
I had come home from high school (I was a freshman) and saw the stuff on TV. I was brokenhearted.
I was in my office, which was in my home, in Houston, watching every moment on TV. I just posted about my day on April 19, 1995, here on FR a few days ago, so I won't repeat--except to say that when I wrote it, I had forgotten how to spell little Baylee's name correctly and today, I remembered.
As for me, I would give everything I own, which "ain't" much anymore, to turn back time to 9:00AM that morning, before this ever happened.
God bless everyone who has been affected by this tragedy from that day until this.
I was sitting at home with a torn knee, crutches, numb behind, flipping channels, and wishing I could go back to work...then I heard the news report and realized someone else had it worse off than I did.
I was home sick with a very nasty flu bug. I watched the whole thing develop on CNN. Didn't help my recovery at all.
what I remember vividly was listening to local talk radio; the subject was Clinton's irrelevance. The evening before he'd given a speech and NONE of the networks would give time for his address. GOP had just taken over Congress, etc. They broke in with news of the bombing, and said talk person said at that time it was a miracle, appeared no loss of life. Went into a Kinko's, came out within a few minutes, and by then the true devastation was becoming clear. Many, including children, killed and Clinton suddenly made himself relevant.
Getting out of Chemistry class at Fordham University, excited about my 19th birthday occuring the next day.