Oklahoma City – Thirty years later in the most severe homeland attack in US history, former President Bill Clinton will return to Oklahoma City on Saturday to commemorate those who were affected by the bombing and comforted.
Clinton was president on April 7, when a truck bomb exploded, destroying the nine -storey federal building in Oklahoma City in the suburb. He will provide the keynote address at a commemoration to the Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum.
Clinton, now 783, is widely acclaimed for how he was killed in the city with mourning in terms of bombing, how he was killed, including 5 children, for how he was killed. He says it was a day of his president that he would never forget.
Clinton said in a video statement posted on the Clinton Foundation website, “The nation’s eyes were there. The hearts of the nation were broken there.” “I personally prayed that I would find the right words, the right melody, the right rhythm that somehow entered the mind and heart of Americans as much as possible.”
Clinton has visited the Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum several times since the bombing and gave speeches in the big anniversary.
One of the top missions in the monument is to teach people a new generation about the impact of political violence and the impact of bombing, the president and chief executive officer of the monument, Curry Watkins.
Watkins said, “We knew that when we made this place we would one day reach a generation who was not born or who did not remember the story,” said Watkins. “I think now, not only the kids are doing more, but teachers who are studying those kids.”
Saturday’s ceremony, scheduled at 5:30 pm, was originally expected to be held at the memorial field, but due to the weather the climb has been transferred inside the adjoining church.
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