Oklahoma City

The Oklahoma City memorial:

Each end has a gate- one marked 9:01 the other marked 9:03- the bomb went off at 9:02 changing lives and this city and country forever.

There is a chair for each person who died in the bombing- they represent the empty chairs in homes and with families. These smaller chairs are for each of the children in the day care center who died.

And here is the survivor tree which was in the parking lot and which they thought had been killed in the blast. Instead it bloomed again, and is a symbol of survival, deeply rooted faith, and new growth even out of terrible tragedy.

The survivor tree again- truly a tree worth stopping to see....