Gabriel Malor's post at Ace of Spades is a vivid reminder that 14 years ago today, murderous bastards blew up the Alfred P. Murrah federal office building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, including 19 children who were in the day care facility located there.
The bomb, a fertilizer-diesel fuel mix, blew up with such force that it shattered windows for dozens of blocks and could be felt for miles.
There are two lasting images of that bombing that haunt. The first was taken by Charles Porter, which I posted above.
The second is the gutted ruins of the building, which partially collapsed in the blast:
The terrorists who did this turned out to be Timothy McVeigh with the assistance of Terry Nichols. While there are those who believe that a conspiracy to cover up foreign terrorist involvement in the attacks and some believe that Jose Padilla may have been John Doe Number 2, the court records show no such evidence.
These were domestic terrorists who murdered their fellow Americans on the anniversary of another deadly incident; the Waco siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, which ended on April 19, 1993, when the compound burned to the ground, killing 76 people including 20 children.
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