We hit the road before the sun had a chance to rise. Gas, coffee and tunes—what more does a family
traveling Griswold style need?
Our destination for the day was Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma. It was more about stopping
after 500 miles of driving than the actual location. We pit stopped for the night at the Rockwell
RV Park. I don’t have awful things to
say about the RV Park but I am not going to rave about it either. It was camping in an urban area—gravel
parking lot, no grass, few trees. The restrooms were decent enough. When you have a flush toilet with water that swirls in the porcelain bowl the bathroom rates! They offer complimentary coffee and muffins
every morning; which we grabbed before heading out of town. The staff was friendly.
We knew on this stop the one thing we wanted to visit was
the Oklahoma City Memorial Museum. It
was beautifully put together. We first
grazed about outside making our way to the museum. As we rode up in the elevator I began to
really feel the heaviness of this past act of terrorism. I turned to M and expressed my emotion and
suddenly felt my eyes well up. The girls
were so small when the bombing absorbed the news waves. I remember heading out the eye doctor with
them both. Why is it that we always
remember what or where we were when tragedy strikes? But we do.
The older I get the more I feel the heaviness of the situations that
infringe upon our country. The girls,
the older they get, the love of country they develop get it, feel it too.
As we took our seats in the second section of the museum to
listen to an actual recording of a hearing at the Water Resource Board across
the street on that day in April 1995 you are grabbed at your heart as the sound
of the explosion is nothing but evident and the lights in the room go black and
the faces of the 168 lives lost flash on a screen. The chairs—sure their representation mark,
but the faces, they grab. Then you see
the handfuls of key chains realizing everyone in the building left for work
that morning like any other day. I loved
the survivor wall in the outside area.
So many memorials recognize those who sacrificed life but not the
survivors--forever changed.
"Visiting that beautiful Memorial and Museum in
Oklahoma City is not fun or for the faint of heart,
but I di think it should be a right of citizenship"
Brian Williams
NBC Nightly News
Then we headed over to Bricktown with its fun, hip urban
feel with great restaurants and venues. Next we drove past Chesapeake Arena to
take in the excitement of the NBA finals.
Here we are again this morning cruising down the highway,
car choir is full swing, climbing in elevation on our way to Amarillo, Texas
for canyon views and big steaks. Oh ya,
and long the way a little Roadside America.
3 comments:
We were just at the memorial in New York for 911 and I felt the same tears there too. You can't help but feel the loss of all those innocent people. I just stood there rubbing my hands over their names etched into the stone surrounding the reflecting pools. Very moving.
I would like to see the Oklahoma City memorial as well. I think it is important to see these memorials to remember. Years ago, we went to the memorial in Salem, MA for those who were killed in the "witchhunts." Even that left a mark with me. Very important messages in those losses.
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