A visit to Oklahoma City is not complete without viewing the Oklahoma City Memorial. This memorial was created after the horrific bombing of the Federal Building in April, 1995. We walked through this memorial, first from outside by the relfection pool, and then inside from the third floor down to the gift shop and exit. A somber reminder of what Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols wreaked upon the people of Oklahoma City. The field of empty chairs symbolizes the people killed and where recovery teams believe they were located within the building. The bigger chairs were the grownups, the smaller chairs the children. The first row was the first floor, etc... Across the reflection pool was a lone elm tree, now known as the survivor tree, and a symbol of hope and life. The memorial was large with a vast amount of displays. All of them are not shown here, just a few glimpses of what was there. Upon exit, were walked upon a 'path of pennies' This was started when a boy who lost his mother in the bombing, asked, "Just one penny-for my Mom"? He recieved several, and then several more. $55,000 worth, (over 5 million pennies) to help toward this memorial.
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