Instead, the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum will offer a prerecorded video that will air online and on TV and will include the reading of the names of everyone killed followed by 168 seconds of silence. “There are a lot of things to grieve this spring, and the loss of the commemoration in person is one of them,” Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt recently told The Associated Press. Among those killed by the massive truck bomb that sheared off the building’s front half were 19 children, most of who were in a day care center in the basement. Law enforcement initially suspected foreign terrorists: the attack happened about two years after Islamic terrorists detonated a truck bomb inside a parking garage at the World Trade Center in New York. But prosecutors would soon learn the Oklahoma City attackers were US citizens and that their bombing was inspired by a different 1993 event.

Source: Manila Times April 17, 2020 16:30 UTC