For my final post, I chose the Oklahoma City National Memorial.  It is located at the former site of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown OKC.  This memorial honors the victims, and all affected by the bombing that took place on April 19, 1995 that destroyed the Murrah Building.  The memorial includes two bronze gates at each end in which one gate shows the time 9:01 representing the time of the bombing, and the other gate shows 9:03 representing the time of recovery.  It also includes 168 empty chairs which represent each person that died that day, a reflection pool, and the Survivors’ Wall.

At the time of the bombing I was not old enough to remember it, but I do remember my first time visiting the site before the memorial was built and seeing a fence covered in different things left in remembrance.  I think my first visit made my visit to the memorial after it’s construction much more meaningful.  It definitely had a lasting impact on my life seeing the chairs that represent each person that died and imagining that there was once a building standing on the location.