OKC Memorial

The week before Jordan started working, we visited Chris and Rebecca in Oklahoma City. While there, we ate LOTS of good   excellent food, and we did a little bit of sight-seeing.

The Oklahoma City Memorial was peaceful, yet sobering. I think that's only appropriate.

The gate of time for 9:03. There is another gate of time at the opposite end of the reflection pool for 9:01. 

Each chair represents a person who was killed because of the explosion. 

The arrangement of the chairs is based on where each person was when the bombing occurred. The nine rows of chairs represent the 9 floors of the Federal Building. Five chairs on one end of the arrangement represent the 5 people who died who were outside the building when the bomb went off.

The smaller chairs represent children. 

Claire was not somber at all; she was her happy, little, smiley self

The Survivor Tree - Chris and Jordan walked around it, and (only later did I learn) that, although one side of the tree is charred from the blast of the bomb, the other side of the tree is alive and well. I wish I had walked around it, but at least I can still see the symbolism inherent in the burned, yet living, beautiful tree.