Requiem for the Heartland: The Oklahoma City Bombing
by David Cohen
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In an age of constant and instantaneous visual communication, we see disasters and calamities played out before our eyes every day. Images of plane crashes and typhoons, famines and war, murders and abuse come tumbling into our homes with soul-numbing regularity. But the April 19, 1995, terrorist blast in Oklahoma City was somehow different. This wasn't Bosnia or Rwanda or even New York City. This was the heart of America. And if little children could not be completely safe at 9:02 in the show more morning in the America's Kids day care center in Oklahoma City, we all knew in a flash that none of us could ever be completely safe anywhere. show lessTags
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1995
- Important places
- Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
- Important events
- Oklahoma City Bombing
- Epigraph
- Times like this will do one of two things. They will either make us hard and bitter and angry at God, or they will make us tender and open, and help us reach out in trust and faith...A tragedy like this could have torn this ... (show all)city apart, but instead it united this city, and you have become fa family. We have seen people coming together in a way we never could have imagined...
The forces of hate and violence must not be allowed to gain their victory - not just in our society, but in our hearts. Nor must we respond to hate with more hate. This is a time of coming together.
--Dr. Billy Graham - Dedication
- This book is dedicated to the victims and their families and to all of the heroes of Oklahoma City.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Yardley, a bomb disposal technician at the explosion site, had not seen his little boy for two weeks.
- Original language
- English
- Disambiguation notice
- This title is by David Elliot Cohen; please catalogue your copy under that exact author.
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- Nonfiction, Politics and Government, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 364.1 — Society, Government, and Culture Social problems and social services Crime Criminal offenses
- LCC
- HV6432 .R46 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Crimes and offenses
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