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Oklahoma City remembers 31 years since Bombing with solemn focus
By Brett Fieldcamp, Oklahoma City Free Press
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Flowers and letters for each victim of the Oklahoma City Bombing are placed on the empty chairs each year for the anniversary of the tragedy at The Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum (B.FIELDCAMP/Okla City Free Press)
OKLAHOMA CITY – Survivors, families, and officials came together early Sunday morning to mark 31 years since the most devastating and unforgettable day in Oklahoma City history, paying remembrance to the 168 lives lost in the terrorist bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995.
It was a short outdoor ceremony, just an hour long, on the grounds of the OKC National Memorial that graces the site of the tragedy, with minimal statements or preamble and no speeches from government officials in attendance, like OKC Mayor David Holt, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt, and Senator James Lankford.
Instead, the ceremony was hosted and led by OKC National Memorial & Museum board of trustees chairman Chris Fleming, who introduced the morning’s invocation, touted the continued resilience of OKC’s community and the ongoing expansion efforts at the museum, and then placed the focus firmly on the annual reading of names of the 168 victims.
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