It was ten years ago this week when Timothy McVeigh detonated his explosives-laden truck in front of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
The bombing is the worst act of domestic terrorism in our nation’s history. One hundred sixty-eight innocent Americans died.
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