I remember standing in the Second floor lounge of the barracks in Iwakuni Japan watching these buildings burn thinking, "Is this what I joined the Marine Corps to protect? WTF is going on here? This isn't right and there is not a damn thing I can do about it."
Still makes me sick that the criminals with badges who perpetrated this are still roaming around free.
I happened to be on I-35 that day, passing through Waco when the fire was started. I had the radio on, listening to a play by play---I pulled off to the side of the road and just sat there watching the smoke rise in the distance.
Many other cars were pulling off the road and stopping, too. It was probably the saddest moment of my life--knowing what our government was doing to these American citizens.