MY HEART IS A LITTLE HEAVY TODAY 💔

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WHAT WERE YOU DOING 31 YEARS AGO TODAY IF YOU WERE EVEN ALIVE?  I was 39 and holding.  I felt like the weight of the world was on my shoulders due to what was going on in my marriage when 31 years ago, the OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING TOOK PLACE. 

I was employed working as a Teacher's Aide known as a PARA close to two school seasons.  I had just resigned because we were planning on moving to UTAH.  A move.  Hubby had a new job in UTAH and I remained HOME with our three children attending school in Marion, Kansas.

I was free to go shopping in the middle of the day since I resigned.  I was not tied down to the job.  I went to Hillsboro to the ET CETERA SHOPPE and I remember hearing Mennonite women talking about an explosion in Oklahoma City.  Returning HOME, I sat on my sofa for a rest break before the kids came HOME from school.  I know that Hillsboro and Newton have ET CETERA SHOPPES that I go to when in the area.  Thrifters DELIGHT.  In 1995, the Hillsboro shop was in a different location than this image.  It was a much smaller store back then, but have continued to grow.

Hillsboro is a small town so this shop is a plus to the locals that are thrifters and in need of help.

Back to the Oklahoma City Bombing.  It was horrible and the talk of the town.  The mystery unfolded.  Marion had been affected by this event.  Nichols lived nearby and he used the fax machine in the grocery store where my oldest son worked in preparation of the planned explosion.  The FBI visited our little community. 

31 years later, the Oklahoma City Bombing event isn't front page news and barely anything is said.  
~d  

How Can I Forget?

~OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING~

Yesterday, I spent much of the day going through old photos of when we lived in Marion, Kansas.  These pics are from 23, 24, 25 years ago when all 3 of my children were living at HOME.  The boys played Basketball and ran Cross Country.  One was in Track and one played Golf.  One sang and one played the Trumpet.  Our daughter was a Drum Majorette, sang, played flute, was Cross Country Manager.  All kept a decent grade point average at school and had HOME CHORES to do.

IT DIDN'T CROSS MY MIND that the anniversary of the bombing would be on Thursday.  I had forgotten until today.  Had forgotten this bombing.

We were living in Marion when the Oklahoma City Bombing took place.  TODAY I continued to work on sorting papers.  I had forgotten that this is the anniversary of the OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING.  The bombing took place 23 years ago on APRIL 19th, 1995.  It was a horrible thing to happen.  Blasting caps from the Marion area were used in this ordeal.

So many families suffered loss of LOVED ONES that day.  Horrible.

How could I forget,
d    

The Kansas Connection

My cup of coffee is cold now as I have been busy with childcare and chores. That's alright...I like it cold. As I was starting to read Current Events on the computer...I read about the Oklahoma City Bombing that happened 15 years ago. Remembering where I was 15 years ago. Where were you?

15 years ago TODAY I was out shopping at a nearby Thrift Store in Hillsboro, Kansas. I over heard 2 Ladies talking about there had been a Oklahoma City EXPLOSION. It wouldn't be till I returned home that I would hear the rest of the STORY.

I had recently resigned from the Marion, Kansas Elementary Grade School as a Para to the 4th Grade Classes as my husband had taken a job in UTAH. We'd be moving soon and I needed the extra time to prepare for the move. I MADE the FREE TIME and went a shopping.

The terrible Oklahoma City explosion and so many innocent people dead.

Earlier in the school year I read in the local newspaper that explosive caps and dynamite had been stolen from the Marion, Kansas Quarry. I imagined that a High School Kid did this and then what would they do with these things. I had no idea the connection these caps and dynamite had with the Oklahoma City Horror till later.

Terry Nichols was living nearby in Herington, Kansas. The FBI investigated the Marion, Kansas Grocery Store where my son worked because a FAX had been sent from there by one of the bombers. Pretty sure the rental truck Timothy McVeigh used in the bombing came from Manhattan, Kansas.

15 years ago, I was 39 years old...living in a dinky rental house in Marion, Kansas, married to my sweetheart, mother to 3 active children, preparing for ANOTHER move.

~Deanna~