In the 25 years since a truck bomb ripped through a federal building in downtown Oklahoma City and killed 168 people, the United States has suffered through foreign wars, a rise in mass shooting and a much deadlier act of terror, the Sept. 11 attacks. But the April 19, 1995, assault on a sleepy city in the nation’s heartland shocked may Americans out of their sense of security and awakened them to their own vulnerability. Terror wasn’t just a foreign problem, it was here. The 25th anniversary ceremony was canceled due to the coronavirus restrictions, delaying the public the chance to collectively grieve a past tragedy because a current one is unfolding. It was so jarring that somebody would do this to innocent victims, especially children. Law enforcement initially suspected foreign terrorists, but prosecutors soon learnt the Oklahoma City attackers were US citizens. Hatred of the federal government motivated former Army soldier Timothy McVeigh and his conspirator Terry Nichols to commit the deadliest act of domestic terrorism on US soil.
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