The Oklahoma City Bombing took place 10 years ago today

About the only time that I really lost it after September 11th was when I saw the full-page newspaper ad taken out by Oklahoma City in support of New York. That's when it hit me hard just how different things would be for now on.

“In Search of John Doe No. 2: The Story the Feds Never Told About the Oklahoma City Bombing”
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/03/1348240

A Salt Lake City lawyer searching for the truth behind his brother's death has uncovered a wealth of new information that could implicate the FBI in the Oklahoma City bombings. The documents he dug up suggest the FBI knew about the plot to bomb the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in advance but did little to prevent it. Jesse Trentadue's brother Kenney Trentadue was found dead in his prison cell in Oklahoma City in August 1995. The FBI calls it a suicide, but Jesse maintains Kenney was beaten to death during an interrogation. Jesse believes the FBI mistook his brother for the missing second suspect in the Oklahoma City bombings - the so-called "John Doe #2." His research also suggests that the bombing was not the work of one or two men, but involved a wider network connected to the far-right white supremacist movement. Jesse Trentadue joins us to talk about his struggle with the FBI in the twelve years since his brother’s death. We’re also joined by reporter James Ridgeway, author of a new Mother Jones article on this story.

Mother Jones article here: http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/07/in_search_of_john_doe_no_2.html

20 Years.

Those kids would be juniors in college now.

The most prominent thing I've been thinking about is how quickly this tragedy got overshadowed. Worst ever case of terrorism in the United States for … a little more than six years?

I mean, the other Big Tragedy took 25x more lives and was spread across three or five states. Of course bells will be ringing off the hook in 2021. But today feels much quieter.

I'm not opposed to quiet. And I'm not opposed to life going on. Just amazed how a bomb exploding, bringing down half of a federal building and killing 168 fell back into the pages of history so fast.

One weird thing about getting older is looking back on the anniversaries you remember.

I've got memories of the 20th anniversary of JFK's death. (I was watching that Martin Sheen miniseries while the rest of you were watching the much more awesome Day After).

So this is what 20 years feels like? Doesn't feel all that long at all.

Didn't realize they had the car on display. Yeesh.

http://i.imgur.com/bjZmiPg.jpg

re: getting older - http://www.kafalas.com/Logtime.html

Looks like a cool link that I'll read later.

4. The result is a "reference age" (20) as subjectively remote in your past as your assumed age of death (80) is in your future. Consider the years from that point in your life (age 20) to the present (age 40): the time you have left (40 to 80) should seem about as long.

I didn't think this thread could get any more morbid...

haha

what I remember most about this day is how quick the talk show callers were to blame the Middle East

I just started work at the William Morris Agency the Monday a couple days before the bombing. Quickly learned that liking music was a detriment to working there. Watched it all on a conference room TV and noted how quickly people blamed the Middle East.