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9:03, the moment the recovery began. \u00a92010 Derek Henry Flood<\/p><\/div>\n

Oklahoma City- <\/strong>I stopped in downtown Oklahoma City en route from New York to Los Angeles to make a brief pilgrimage to The Gates of Time, the monument on North Harvey street where just over fifteen years ago, a deranged Iraq War I veteran named Timothy McVeigh<\/a> detonated a Ryder rental truck he obtained in Kansas in front of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building<\/a> on April 19, 1995 that killed one-hundred sixty-eight people. McVeigh claimed in prison interviews that the (first) Iraq war was borne of America’s inherently hypocritical foreign policy which increasingly irked his sensibilities and that the federal responses and reactions to the respective incidents at Randy Weaver’s Ruby Ridge<\/a> property in northern Idaho in 1992 and David Koresh’s <\/a>Branch Davidian compound<\/a> in Waco, Texas in 1993 further radicalized him. McVeigh was executed by lethal injection in a federal prison facility in Terre Haute, Indiana on June 11, 2001.<\/p>\n

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The shallow reflecting pool that was once Northwest 5th street in downtown Oklahoma City. \u00a92010 Derek Henry Flood<\/p><\/div>\n

The Oklahoma City National Memorial<\/a> is stunning in its subdued simplicity and shines as a condemnation of the trend of anti-Federal terrorism and paranoia espoused by the crackpot militia movements of the 1990s. For all the devastation I have witnessed in the third world’s burning heart and as a witness to 9\/11, the Gates of Time stand quietly in the American heartland as a reminder not to fall in the lull of assumption that many in this great country take comfort in. McVeigh reportedly felt remorseless about his victims and described the nineteen children he killed in the building’s daycare center as “collateral damage<\/a>” according to The Guardian’s Julian Borger. \u00a0I remember being a first year university student and the news media jumping to conclusions that the bombing could only have been or must have been the work of “Middle Eastern terrorists (read: Arab<\/em>), which they later blamed on fallible government sources that rendered their inaccurate and non-nuanced reporting blameless (so they said in this American Journalism Review article from 1995<\/a>). Today a breeze gently blows through the Gates of Time, McVeigh is dead and forgotten as a loner trailer-park terrorist, and America is still in Iraq. Memory. Tragedy.<\/p>\n

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Every April 19th, the people of Oklahoma City continue to grieve for those lost to the biggest domestic terrorist attack in American history. \u00a92010 Derek Henry Flood<\/p><\/div>\n

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9:01, the last moment of peace. \u00a92010 Derek Henry Flood<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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