Like out everybody.

Welcome back to the Lights Out Podcast episode 4.

Today we're going to be talking about a very, very dark event in American history, really

just a dark day in general.

And that is going to be the Oklahoma City bombing, which occurred on April 19, 1995 at the

Alfred Murray Building in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

2020 is actually the 25 year anniversary of this event and I think it's even with events

like these, it's always important to remember the people that lost their lives in this

tragic event that happened.

168 innocent men, women and children died in this domestic terrorist attack that is still

one of the deadliest attacks in American history.

And this particular event is especially close to Jolani because we actually lived in Oklahoma

City not during the time of this attack actually, but a few years after we actually lived

in Oklahoma City from 1997 to 2001.

So I actually have memories of this, but our father actually brought us down to the

site of the Oklahoma City bombing, the remains of the federal building where they had it

all chain linked off and I'll never forget, I think God, I was pretty young at this point

97.

So yeah, I was five or six years old and you probably don't remember this at all, but I remember

going there and walking around the outside of the chain link fence around the site of

this because at that point there was no memorial built and it was just still rubble and whatever

was left of the building that was there.

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