Oklahoma City National Memorial and Muesuem

The moment we drove into Oklahoma I saw the red and orange leaves. It looked so beautiful and it actually looked like autumn! We drove and drove until we got to Oklahoma City. We went to the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum. This a memorial for all the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing. The memorial includes 168 chairs (see in pictures) for all of the victims which is called the Field of Empty Chairs. There are also two enormous gates. On the first one it says 9:01 and on the second it says 9:03. This is because the bombing occurred at 9:02, the first one represents the innocence of the city before the attack and the second one represents the moment Oklahoma (and the rest of the country) was changed forever. In the middle is a reflecting pool which sadly wasn't full due to maintenance. There was also a tree called the Survivor Tree which is a 90+ year old American Elm that survived the bombing. The memorial was overall really well put together. Inside the museum, you go through a timeline of what happened on April 19, 1995. It shows you maps of the buildings and some of the survivors stories.

a prayer painted on the side of a building buy a rescue team member