[GH85Carrera]

A low life sleaze bag, that I will not mention by name without spitting on the floor, killed 168 men, women and a lot of children. The coward just lit the fuse to a giant bomb and walked away. The Alfred P. Murrah Federal building had an all glass facade, and it was easy to look in and see the kids in the day care right in front.

9:01 AM April 19th 1995 is a moment like learning Kennedy was killed, the space shuttles exploding, or the attack on NYC on 9/11. My office was 6 miles away and I was in a sturdy concrete tilt wall construction building on the far side away from the explosion. Our building shook in the boom, and I honestly figured a semi had somehow hit the back of the building. We all ran to the back, and saw nothing. They we looked outside expecting an downed airliner. We turned on the TV and we were all just stunned at the devastation. Our work stopped for the day as we were all in shock.

The only good news is the mass killer was caught by a State Trooper within an hour. The taxpayers had to spend millions of dollars on a trial, but in the end, we killed him back. Unfortunately we could not kill him 168 times. His conspirator is going to spend the rest of his rotten life in jail.

I did not lose any relatives or close friends, but a few people that I had met and knew were lost. I used to drive past the building fairly often when I used a bank that was next door.

It seem impossible to believe it has been 25 years.