30 years ago in OKC..

[Spinnerb8]

My sons lost a grandfather, I lost an FIL, and 167 other died for no reason at all. I am no longer married to his daughter, but he was a good man. Never seems to be anything mentioned anymore but we should never forget.

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[Bass Cat Boats]

It’s one of those days some of us will always remember where we were. Yes, we have visited the memorial in OKC.

Owners Invitational Week, Mountain Home, Arkansas. And it had just happened when the first family I greeted was the just arriving Wellmans from OKC (Terry -RIP), who was an active OKC firefighter on vacation. His wife worked for the IRS in the Murrah Building office. Her sister worked there, and her child was in the day care, in the Murrah Building that day. No, I didn’t know that at the time. They were both safe we learned pretty quick, and news was slow then. Few had cell phones in that era and the web was new.

Those memories will long be with us.

[Rangerman2006]

I was in 4th Grade at Columbus Elementary in OKC 3.5 miles from the bombing. I can still remember how loud the explosion was and how it shook the ground so hard that desks fell over in the classroom.

[11pounder]

I was at work getting ready to start my route for the day when the jets flew over heading to OKC, they broke the sound barrier and I thought that's odd.

[BigEasy]

I can’t say that I remember where I was or what I was doing that day.

What I can say is I visited the memorial last year and it was like going to a battlefield. Very somber and eerie.

[rb]

Just started an install of x-ray imaging equipment at High Point Hospital. For several minutes after the only sounds you heard were the sounds from the patients heart monitors beeping

[rjvana37]

Netflix has documentary on the that.

[WarEagle24]

Netflix has documentary on the that.

It's a very good documentary.

[thebassoutlaw]

[yatesville88fan]

That was a very sad day just senseless killing of innocent people. For those families.

[Bubbabass1]

Had recently moved to Norman before this tragic day. I do remember where I was on this day.

BB1

[retiredmechanic]

[lakefolk]

30 years,,, man it seems like yesterday.. Time flies guys, cherish every day you can.. I remember it like it was yesterday too, I was in my office in Tulsa,, remember everyone in the room and exactly what we were doing. I had TV in my office on local news station every morning mostly to check weather and if I had someone in there it was still on but muted. We watched it unfold and we were in shock.. It was a horrible horrible day... for those that lost their lives and all that loved them and all that were and are still affected by that senseless tragedy..

[AdamB]

Was walking down the hallway at work when I saw others gathered around the TV.

[Okie Poke]

Still praying for all of those affected. Our oldest child was born 3 weeks prior and I was on my first travel trip since having our daughter. I was in Anadarko and my customers and I stood at the TV screen just staring in utter disbelief. I packed my stuff up and headed through OKC on I-40 and the whole city was smoke filled still, 2 hours after the bombing. It was such an eerie feeling.

[okiebass]

I still remember that day !!! Was in total shock
I was at work in Tulsa

[davidsa]

we had taken a day off to play golf and found out at the turn. I don't think we could even process what had happened.

[Mike A]

Our shop was a little over a mile away. Was sitting at my desk and thought a semi truck had run into our building. Wound up taking donated equipment to the site the next day and saw responders coming out with covered bodies. Lost two close family friends that day and was actually visiting with the mother of one of them this past Sunday at church about the upcoming 30th. She lost her daughter and unborn grandchild. Went to those and a 1/2 dozen other funerals of loved ones of other friends. Changed the city.

[tlefire]

I've been there also. Such a moving experience.

[SoonerFan]

I was tying my tie and getting ready to chaperone my daughter's fourth grade class to the OKC Symphony. An hour of so difference in timing and we would have been driving with in a block of the devastation on the way to the Civic Center.

I live 16 miles straight north of the Murrah Building. When I heard the blast I was certain that the house across the street had experienced a natural gas explosion...that's how close it sounded. The little weenie dog I had back then started the most mournful howl that I had ever heard, and kept it up for several minutes. Unlike anything I had ever heard him do before. I had the feeling that he was somehow aware of all those souls leaving this life at the same time.

A good friend of mine, Stan Rumbaugh or "Sarge" died a year later from injuries he received that day. He was a retired 30 year Air Force lifer that I knew from the car business. A typical New Yorker with a million hilarious stories. When he was active duty, he had a little car wholesaling business buying and selling cars to incoming and outgoing Airmen at Tinker...sometimes he would wholesale one to where I worked. When he retired, he started working at the Veterans Administration in the Federal Building. When I bought my house on the GI Bill, he walked me through the process and getting my DD-214 and the paperwork for the home mortgage and then walked me over across the street to file my DD-214 with the Country Clerk. We stopped at a little coffee shop and I bought coffee and sweet rolls and that was the last time I ever saw him. We hadn't lived in our new house but a few months when the bombing occurred. I did find a picture in a book on the bombing that show a picture of him being removed on a stretcher, with his name in the caption but as far as I ever seen, he is not listed as one of the casualties.