Again, thanks for the kind words and prayers. It is really not any different or harder than any other person who has lost a loved one, it's just a little harder to forget because of the media coverage. I think my mother-in-law's death was even more difficult, because we had to take her off of life support and watch her die. God didn't make dying easy.
By the way, the two things that always bothered me the most were:
1) I was there within 15 minutes of the explosion and made it to the northeast corner of the building before everybody, including the police, atf, fire, etc... started fleeing frantically, screaming that there were more bombs found and they were going to explode. Why?
2) At that time, it was the worst terrorist act on US soil, but yet less than 1-1/2 months later the building was imloded, cleaned up and the rubble buried away under lock and key. Again, why? I remember they day they brought it down, suddenly thinking, "why are they doing this so quickly"? Surely, they didn't have time to go through everything. And if the building was truly unstable, it would have never survived a week of April and May Oklahoma winds.
I lost my father when I was very young. It still hurts every day, and I'm getting to be an old lady. :-/
Your grief isn't allowed to be private, and I'm sorry for that. But there are so many who grief with you, for different, less personal reasons. I hope it offers a bit of comfort or at least company. :-)
You raise two very good questions.
I doubt that the truck was the only 'bomb' that exploded at that site that day. I don't know the hows and whys. I think Clinton and his people moved fast in making it go away to lessen the chances that we would ever know.
To lose someone with that accompanying frustration would eat at me. You must have been doing some heavy-duty praying to avoid that. And there's no doubt your mom is working hard to comfort and soothe that, for your own peace.
My prayers and warm wishes for you and your family.
Pinz
My condolences on your loss.
I had the same thoughts. What was the hurry to destroy the scene? I don't buy the story that it was to protect the familes.