17 Degrees in Kansas?!?
We weren’t sure if we’d get out of the unplowed Kansas campsite but with some 4 wheel drive and a lot of gas, we made it. Campground had about 10 full-timers (sounds horrible in this weather) but was otherwise quite empty, and snowy!
Alan noticed a missing lug nut on the camper wheel so luckily Discount Tire was not busy and we had a very friendly staff member help get us back on the road in no time – A long snowy boring road.
Lucky to find a place with electricity to sleep for a while.
We visited Oklahoma City National Memorial, the site of the first act of US domestic terrorism.
“On April 19, 1995, at 9:02 a.m. a forty-eight-hundred-pound ammonium nitrate–fuel oil bomb exploded in a Ryder truck parked at the north entrance of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and injuring approximately 850. The governor’s office reported that thirty children were orphaned, 219 children lost at least one parent, 462 people were left homeless, and seven thousand people lost their workplace. The City of Oklahoma City’s Final Report estimated property damage to more than three hundred buildings in a forty-eight-square-block area.”
https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=OK026
There is a metal and granite chair displayed for each person who lost their life. They are organized by what floor they were on (including anyone outside the building).
Children created memorial tiles which are placed at the entrance.
The Reflection Pond has a large stone memorial at each end. One end displays 9:01 and the other 9:03 with the pond between them to represent the loss of life that occurred at 9:02am.
