I still remember the day in 1995 that Timothy McVeigh truck-bombed the Federal Building in Oklahoma City. It’s one of those days, like the Challenger explosion or the Berlin Wall collapsing or the 9-11 attacks, that you always remember where you were when you heard about it.
In our current times, where we pee our pants incessantly over “immmmigrants omigodz!!!” and “mooooslims oh noez!!!”, it is worth remembering that one of our worst terrorist attacks was carried out by two guys who called themselves “True American Patriots(c)(tm)”, and that our own rightwing extremists are every bit as crackpot and every bit as deadly as anyone in ISIS or Al Qaeda.
Some photos from a visit to the memorial.