Just to Remember (Especially if you Don’t)

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Do you know what today is? April 19, 2026, but do you know what anniversary it is? Thirty-one years ago today, on April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh blew up via a bomb filled Ryder truck, the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He murdered 168 people, including children inside a daycare housed in the business building. Hundreds more were injured. My dad lost a cousin. I remember our school shaking (we were about 10 miles away). No one knew what was going on until we turned on the news. And we never turned it off. A lot of people old enough to remember today actually don’t remember this event, which is understandable. So many tragedies have happened since. But they deserve to be remembered. And if you ever get the chance to visit the Museum and Memorial in OKC, please do so. Are there things that happened, personal to you, that you hope people always remember? Not to remember trauma, because the people themselves deserve to never be forgotten? *What happened to McVeigh? He dropped all appeals of his death sentence, and he was executed 4 years later. Death sentences usually take decades to carry out. *His accomplice, Terry Nichols, is currently serving life in prison. *Only one victim remains unidentified. No one has a clue except he was male.