Comments on: 15 years later

By: Sherry Meneley

Sherry Meneley — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:20:16 +0000

I was two years freshly married, and trying to make some type of contribution to the world in my workplace. I was trying to get ahead, climb the corporate ladder. Then this happened. This event stunned me. This is stuff that happens over-seas. Not in America, where I was attempting to live the American Dream.

Small TVs were set up around the office and tuned into the local news. Radios were on AM news stations. And we stopped working and watched. Little work was done and lots of worry was set off. And suddenly the American Dream twisted and felt impossible in a place were it could all end so fast. I grew up a little more that day.

By: jasonS

jasonS — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:04:18 +0000

I was about 40 minutes away in Shawnee, OK. I was in 10th grade in a Christian school. I’m not sure how it all happened but someone got up in our chapel service and began to repent to someone else and God. Suddenly there was a chain reaction and many people were repenting (myself included). The only way I can describe it is a move of God. This went on for several hours and in the midst of it, we heard a sound and there was some glass that rattled. We didn’t know until later that what we heard was from the bombing. It stuck with me since that time because of the genuine repentance and tears (not to mention I had family in the buildings surrounding the federal building). I have been once to the memorial and it’s very sobering…

By: uberVU - social comments

uberVU - social comments — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:00:21 +0000

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By: Candy

Candy — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 02:22:31 +0000

I remember that day well. I was in the exercise lab with patients and the TVs are always on. When the news came on, the monitors gradually started alarming and blood pressures went sky-high. It was such a powerful moment to see people literally have a physical reaction to an emotional event. The same thing happened with the WTC attack – teachable moments on what physical manifestations can be caused by stress, which is why many of our patients are there in the first place.

We visited the memorial in 2006 when we went down for an OSU game to see our son, and it was a very emotional day. We found it hard to leave and wandered around for a very long time. I will never forget it.

By: Ginny (MAD21)

Ginny (MAD21) — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 01:39:40 +0000

I remember exactly where I was. I had come home from work for an early lunch and turned on the TV. I will never forget it. I cried on and off for days and still have the images burned into my memory. I can still hear the voices of the survivors that were interviewed. The voice of one mother who lost all three of her children asking if she was a mother anymore.

This event affected me deeply, and still does.

Hubby and I traveled cross-country for our honeymoon almost ten years ago. I knew we were going to be traveling through Oklahoma. I made sure we made it to the memorial. It was beautiful, and awful. I cried all day.

I won’t ever understand what would bring a person to do such a horrific thing.