Each year on this 19th day of April, I reflect to when the Oklahoma City Bombing took place... I was living in Kane, Pennsylvania at the time this happened.
My son Jamie, his wife and our granddaughter were living here, in Oklahoma City. I was at home just channel surfing, when I came across a bunch of commotion on the tv showing smoke, ruined cars, people lining the street all covered with blood.. and when they mentioned this horiffic explosion was happening in Oklahoma City, my heart started racing.. wondering if my son and his family were all okay. Jamie and Candy just moved into their new home, and I had no idea where it was located, or if it was close to where this bombing had taken place.. My daughter in law worked for the Ryder truck company, which wasn't too far from where the Murrah building was. My son worked for Putnam City School Bus transportation and was on his way downtown with a bus load of young children that were going on their school class field trip, when bus transportation called and told Jamie and the other school bus drivers to head back to the bus barn as a bomb had gone off at the Murrah Building. Jamie was only blocks away from where this bombing took place, and says that he felt some of the impact of the bomb when it exploded.. My daughter in law also felt some of the impact of the bomb where she worked.. The impact of the bomb could be felt quite a ways away from the Murrah Building.
I did get ahold of Candy on the telephone at her workplace, and she said that she, Jamie and Marie were all okay.. I was so releaved to hear that!!
I thank the Lord over and over again for keeping my love one's safe and all of the children safe that were on the several school buses on their way to their class field trip downtown that day.
My heart still breaks, just as hard as it did that day and I still shed tears when I think about all the beautiful lives that were lost that morning.. My heartfelt thoughts and prayers goes out to all of the loss one's family, friends, and love one's... still.... always & forever..
"Thank You" to all of our Military Soldiers for our Freedom here in the U.S.A.!! Thank You so much to each one of them and also to their families!! God Bless Them All!!
Blessings,
~Lynn
4 months ago
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Lynn I too feel the pain of that bombing every April and I am a Canadian.....the young lady who lost both of her sons then devorced haunted me forever....then I learned she has since remarried and had more children. What a horrible time in history that day....:-) Hugs
ReplyDeleteThank you for the reminder! I was student teaching back then and remember the day well! I hope you are having a good Monday!
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I can't believe that was 15 years ago. It seemed like just a few years ago. Thanks for the reminder. I remember it clearly. You must have been a nervous wreck until you heard from your family.I'm just so glad that they were fine. Very scary though.
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Deborah
I can't imagine your fear when you heard that on TV! What a blessing they were all fine. Thanks for reminding me about that day. Makes me stop and give thanks for my family's safety! xoxo
ReplyDeleteHello lynn, I noticed you just found my blog and posted my giveaway Thank you. I am a fellow Oklahoman...at the time of this tragic event I was living in Moore. My youngest was in elementary school and I remember them coming in to get one of his classmates that day. The poor little girl had lost her dad. This was such a sad event..I remember watching it for countless hours on tv. So sad!!
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