Oklahoma City
National Memorial
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The Oklahoma National Memorial is a very moving experience. Everything at the
Memorial has a meaning or symbolism. The reflecting pool has a gate at each end,
one that says 9:01 and the other 9:03. The East Gate represents 9:01 and the
innocence of the city. The West Gate, 9:03, represents the moment we were all
changed forever by the horror of what had happened. |
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The field of 168 empty chairs represent the lives taken that day. They are
arranged in 9 rows for each floor of the building and each chair has the
name of a person killed on that floor. |
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A fence erected to protect the area after the bombing immediately became a
place that people left tokens to remember loved ones. Today people still
leave tokens of remembrance. The museum collects and preservers them in
their archives. They have over 60,000 pieces in their archives. |
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