Driving to work. Unlike 9/11, I did not assume it was Muslims. With 9/11, though, I had no doubt even though that verdict was not official immediately.
I had duty. USS Eisenhower, we were in the shipyard at Newport News.
put out an alert for three men believed to be of Middle Eastern origin driving a brown Chevrolet pick-up truck.
I remember that in the days following the bombing, the sketches of "John Doe #3" kept morphing, until I was convinced that the changes wouldn't stop until the sketches looked exactly like Newt Gingrich.
The Clintons were desperately trying to pin it on the Militia of Montana and other Militias active at the time.
Just two years earlier he burned down a church and murdered 74 people, men , women and children.He said biting his lip !
b'shem Y'shua
Another view of it:
I was in Las Vegas, in the Rio, about 15 floors up getting ready to go to a job site watching it on the tube. At the site in north LV we could hardly think due to the jets screaming overhead from Nellis AFB.
I was at work, and my boss told me to "hold the phones" and to come and see what was on TV in his office.
Initially we were both simply amazed that someone would do this, and we both cried. The guys had already gone out to their project sites, so it was just the two of us. We didn't get a lot done that day. I remember watching TV most of the day, and also the guys calling in from the construction sites to ask for updates every hour or so.
I'm still amazed that they caught McVeigh so quickly. I'm still convinced that there is more to the story than we were told.
We got married in Reno, NV...and there was a bomb scare called into the Court House and we had to come back in the afternoon to get our marraige license...little rebel did not accuse me of calling in the threat, BTW. :)
I was in downtown Washington DC with my 7 & 9 yr. old daughters. We couldn't understand why we were frisked just to enter the National Aquarium and the Treasury was closed to tours. We didn't find out what had happened until we got back to the hotel room that evening.
I was 16, driving back from a fishing vacation in Canada when I heard about it on the radio.
I was in my office in Oklahoma City about 8 miles from the federal building. I heard the blast and felt the concussion and went downtown to help out. The building was surrounded by police and a policeman took me to a nearby triage center occupied by about 100 physicians, 400 nurses and innumerable ambulances from the area. I stayed about three hours and in that time only one patient came in. The casualties had all gone directly to the closest hospitals. I lost two friends, a retired missionary/dentist and his wife whose two daughters had worked for me in the past. 168 people were killed but three ladies were pregnant.....I count the fatalities as 171
I was at work in Fort Riley, Kansas.
I was driving on Middlesex Turnpike in Burlington, Massachusetts with Howie Carr on the radio. Howie immediately blamed "towelheads" then later apologized for jumping to conclusions.
My office was near the capitol, my brother was miles away, and (by the grace of God) my sister-in-law didn't have to pick up her documents at the Murrah Federal Building that particular day!