Category Archives: 9/11 Community

Oklahoma City Marks 18th Anniversary of Bombing

By Kimberly | Published: April 19, 2013

By Tim Talley, Associated Press It’s been 18 years since a truck bomb detonated outside Oklahoma City’s federal building, but family members of the 168 people killed in the attack said Friday their memories of the carnage and their sense of loss are as vivid as ever following the Boston Marathon explosions. “It opens that wound,” said [...]

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New Yorkers visit Oklahoma City as part of healing

By Kimberly | Published: April 19, 2013

By Mark Schlachtenhaufen The Edmond Sun Thursday evening, Charles Kaczorowski returned to a familiar and ultra-meaningful site.  Oklahoma Christian University is the only place in the world outside of New York City to have survivor trees from the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and the World Trade Center growing side by side. For the eighth year [...]

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Virginia tranferring land to Pentagon 9/11 memorial

By Kimberly | Published: April 18, 2013

Hank Silverberg, WTOP FM  WASHINGTON – Virginia is transferring land to be used as part of the Pentagon 9/11 memorial. The 1.7 acres of land, currently owned by the Virginia Department of  Transportation, are inside a loop ramp at Columbia Pike and Washington Boulevard to the Department of Defense. The land will be used for [...]

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