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Rows of empty bronze and glass chairs stand on a grassy field at the Oklahoma City National Memorial, commemorating victims of the 1995 bombing. Oklahoma City National Memorial
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Oklahoma City National Memorial

national memorial, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
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Rows of empty bronze and glass chairs stand on a grassy field at the Oklahoma City National Memorial, commemorating victims of the 1995 bombing.
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The Oklahoma City National Memorial commemorates the victims of the 1995 bombing. On April 19, 1995, a truck bomb detonated outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, including 19 children, and injuring over 500. This act of terrorism was carried out by Timothy McVeigh, a former U.S. Army soldier, who sought to avenge the Waco siege. The bombing remained the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil until September 11, 2001. The memorial, dedicated in 2000, includes an outdoor symbolic memorial with 168 empty chairs and a museum that opened in 2001.123

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