Thursday, May 11, 2017
Oklahoma City Bombing
A truck bomb exploded on April 19, 1995 in Oklahoma at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people including 19 children in the day care center. Originally, many Americans initially believed that it was an Arab terrorist attack. However, it turned out to be a fellow American, named Timothy McVeigh. His motivation was that he was very anti-government who feared a large government that would control the lives of all Americans. He was later executed and his partner given a life sentence. This was the worst terrorist attack to occur on US soil at that point. There now exists a national memorial for this devastating attack.
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I'm perplexed as to what McVeigh was trying to achieve. He despises the government, OK, but why bomb a government building? It won't make a dent in its power, nor will it send a message that people are likely to support. If anything, he actually made it worse by escalating the war against terror, which lead to the arguably unnecessarily nosy government we have today.
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