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24. 24 years ago, a writer truck packed with nearly 5,000 pounds of explosives was parked in front of Oklahoma City's Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building by Timothy McVeigh, a Gulf War veteran who two years

prior had driven to Waco, Texas during the siege of the compound belonging to the branch Davidians to show his support.

At the scene he distributed pro-gun rights literature and bumper stickers bearing slogans such

as when guns are outlawed,

I will become an outlaw.

On April 19, 1995, he delivered a bomb that killed 168 people,

among them 19 children, most of whom who were in the building's daycare

center.

The youngest victim was four months old. In a matter of seconds the blast destroyed most of the

nine-story concrete and granite building and the surrounding area looked like a

war zone. Dozens of cars were incinerated and more than 300 nearby buildings were damaged or destroyed.

The Oklahoma City bombing remains the seminal event in Oklahoma City history and the deadliest act of terrorism on U.S.

soil after 9-11.

But on the grounds today, 24 years later, sits a memorial that brings

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