Nicole - Habitat for Humanity- Blog 1

Our first day we had off, so we thought it would be fun to go to the memorial of the bombing that took place in Oklahoma City in 1995. I wasn’t sure what to expect since I wasn’t too informed about what had actually happened. First we walked around the outside of the memorial, which also happened to be the gravesite to all of the individuals who lost their lives on that dreadful day. It was bittersweet because there were many things at the memorial that reminded us that the people were heroes and that they would always be remembered, but there was still the eerie feeling that we were walking around right where the bombing had happened. As we proceeded through the memorial, I was getting more and more choked up. There were a few stories hanging on the walls that were just heartbreaking, I recall one about a woman running into the building to rescue people who were trapped under the explosion. She was a trained medical technician, and had already saved two people a few minutes earlier. Upon going back into what was left of the building, she was hit straight on with concrete right in the head. She was taken to the hospital where they thought she was doing better, but it turned out that she took a turn for the worse and passed away. Her husband was given a hand written note from Bill Clinton naming her one of five heroes in the year of 1995. I thought that was extremely heartwarming and that shows just how much of a disaster this bombing really was.