It started with a backpack at the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games, a backpack that contain a bomb.

While the authorities focused on the wrong suspect, a serial bomber planned his next attacks, two abortion clinics, and a lesbian bar.

But this isn't his story, it's a human story, one that I've become entangled with.

I saw as soon as I turned the corner, basically someone bleeding out.

The victims of these brutal attacks were left to pick up the pieces, forced to explore the gray areas between right and wrong, life and death.

Their once ordinary lives and mine changed forever.

It kind of gave me a feeling of pending doom.

And all the while, our country found itself facing down a long and ugly reckoning with a growing threat.

Far right, homegrown, religious terrorism.

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Body backs with Joseph Scott Moore.

Every now and then I try to reenter myself as a dad, because you know when when your kids get older and they get out of the house

many times Many times you forget those moments that are so very precious when that little life was delivered into this world and swaddled by perhaps a labor and

delivery nurse and you're terrified. It doesn't matter how many

kids you have you're terrified every single time and they hand that child to you this little life that has come into the world.

And you know, you've been in great anticipation all this time.

You've gone through the pregnancy with, in my case with my

precious wife and you don't really know what's on the horizon but when they

hand that little life over to you and you hold them to your

chest and they're trying to make that little cry you know they haven't quite got their voice, even for crying at that point time, their mouth opens.

And you look down and you see the fragility of what you're holding, and you know that it is your responsibility to bring them up in a world

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