During my visit to Oklahoma
 

Last week i was down in Oklahoma City for training. On saturday as a group we all visited the OKC bombing Memorial/Museum. Talk about a eerie feeling walking around. Seeing all the chairs and knowing that each one was for a person that lost their life that day. Walking threw the exhibits and seeing parts of the Ryder truck that was used in the bombing, peoples belongings and the destruction it caused was just well.... i cant describe it. Listening to the only audio recording of the explosion gave me goose bumps know that instant in time death was upon 168 people that day. They had a room there with pictures of the people who lost their lives that day. It wasnt the adult pictures that got to me but the infants that were at the day care that hit me. Knowing that they didnt have a chance at surviving. The training i did while i was down there was how to search and extract victims/bodies from horrific days like this. Puts a whole new out look on the week of training that we all received. It wasnt the thinking of "fuck i dont wanna do that". Its more "i have to get that person to their loved ones". Here are the pictures i got from the day.


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So sad

very sad!

That's intense. Hope you never have to use that training.

Think about how much ingenuity it took to do that much harm, what all that effort could have done if it were used for something positive.

holy fuck that just looks shitty in the pics can not imagine walking around and being there in person.

That pic of the bent up street sign makes my stomach turn...

I fuckin hate this world. :klab:

:(

Kind of puts a perspective on life. Wondering what will happen next.

Damn. That's crazy. Very sad

Too bad the punishment for McVeigh and Nichols couldn't have been something much more severe. Yes, McVeigh was sentenced to death, but that was waaaay too light in my own personal opinion. You attack the people in your own country, women and children alike...WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU. Personally I would make them live through it all day long, show them the wrath of what they had done. The families they've destroyed, lives they've taken, the irreparable damage they've caused. It would make 'Gitmo' look like a friggin country club.
I can only imagine what it must have been like walking through there and seeing it man. Pictures never do anything like that justice. Just hope you never have to deal with anything like that during your course man.

I hope I don't either. It's not just attacks like this ill have to respond to. It's anything from power plants exploding, hurricanes, tornados and every other natural dissaster. We had army units from all across the country with us. The instructors are full time firefighters that responded to that dissaster. So getting first hand real life training was great. Knowing that what thy are teaching us isn't out of some stupid book but the methods they've used was awesome. All in all I miss OK. 85 for the 9 days I was there to get off the plane at 7pm on Sunday and it be rainy and cold sucked lol.