Good morning. Thank you for joining us for this 25th anniversary remember in ceremony. Im bob ross, chairman of the Oklahoma City National Memorial foundation. We are grateful to have this unique opportunity to come together as a community albeit virtually as we pause to remember i would like to thank the memorials Conscience Community for their guidance. As you watch todays ceremony, we encourage you to take a photo of those joining you. Post your photo using the weremember. Lets all do our part to strengthen our community. For 25 years we have worked together to create become world renowned as an educational institution. Over half a Million People visit the memorial and museum each year, coming to these hallowed grounds to show respect and learn about the power of the oklahoma spirit. Our Mission Statement remains our cornerstone in shaping the important work that continues today. Just as we do each time we meet or gather for a memorial event, we pause for the reading of the Mission
Where everybody could go in, credit union and snack bar. We were constantly inundated with people just coming in to visit or draw a little money for their lunch or apply for a loan. Everybody, everybody visited the credit union. I got there as early as i could that morning. I had my cruise pictures from vacation the week before. I was going to share all those with these gals when we met that morning. So, we didnt get started on this meeting until about 8 20 that morning. And i would turn around and look at my computer screen at the next item that we were to discu discuss, and i went back in my chair and let them chat about who is going to copy this, do this, get this ready for the Banking Department so they could hurry with their audit. I just turned around in my chair and kind of reared back and was getting ready to discuss the next item that i had mentioned when the bomb went off. And it had to be longer, but it was just like seconds. And then all the girls that was in the office wit
Where everybody could go in, credit union and snack bar. We were constantly inundated with people just coming in to visit or draw a little money for their lunch or apply for a loan. Everybody, everybody visited the credit union. I got there as early as i could that morning. I had my cruise pictures from vacation the week before. I was going to share all those with these gals when we met that morning. So, we didnt get started on this meeting until about 8 20 that morning. And i would turn around and look at my computer screen at the next item that we were to discuss, and i went back in my chair and let them chat about who is going to copy this, do this, get this ready for the Banking Department so they could hurry with their audit. I just turned around in my chair and kind of reared back and was getting ready to discuss the next item that i had mentioned when the bomb went off. And it had to be longer, but it was just like seconds. And then all the girls that was in the office with me d
The Federal Building has been blown up. Holy cow. [sirens blaring] welcome to the Emergency Education net work. Tonight, live from Oklahoma City, managing terrorism events, the oklahoma experience. And now, your host ken hines. Ken good evening and welcome to the Emergency Education network. Im ken hines, your host for this broadcast which is coming to you live from the Firefighters Memorial museum in Oklahoma City, oklahoma. E title of this broadcast is managing terrorism events. Tonight, its affecting every nation including our own. It leaves a trail of anger, fear and frustration in its path. Its name is called terrorism, a word that has been ringing in our ears all too frequently of late. Oklahoma city, oklahoma, is a city that just over a year ago experienced a devastation of mammoth proportion as a massive truck bomb exploded. This violent act of terrorism killed and injured hundreds of victims and caused severe damage, Emergency Personnel and Law Enforcement officers from every
For the survivors of the crime, and for the families of the dead, the pain goes on. Final punishment of the guilty cannot alone bring peace to the innocent. It cannot recover the loss or balance the scales, and it is not meant to do so. Today, every living person hurt by the evil done in Oklahoma City can rest in the acknowledgment there has been a reckoning. In every moment since, we have seen the good that overcomes people. We saw it in the rescuers who stayed and suffered with the victims. We have seen it in a community that has grieved, and held close the memory of the lost. We have seen it in the work of detectives, marshal, and police, and we have seen it in the courts. Due process ruled the case was proved; the verdict was calmly reached; and the rights of the accused were protected and observed to the full and to the end. Under the laws of our country, the matter is concluded. Life and history bring tragedies, and often they cannot be explained. But they can be redeemed. They a