Oklahoma City Bombing Timothy Mcveigh

Oklahoma City Bombing
Many say the April 19, 1995 Oklahoma City bombing was one of the most devastating attacks in American history. Timothy McVeigh’s actions shook the American society by desecrating Oklahoma City.
Growing up Timothy McVeigh had to live a difficult life. He was only 10 years old when his parents divorced in 1978. Dealing with this he felt isolated, and alone leading him to get picked on and bullied. The way he dealt with this was by focusing on his marksmanship skills, spending a lot of time shooting at coke cans every day. He was only 14, when he started worrying about government issues by piling up food and camping stuff that was his way of surviving. He went by “Take it as it comes, buy a Lamborghini, California girls.”

Despite the fact he never had a girlfriend. Two years after graduation, Timothy attended a computer school in Buffalo. Later in May 1988, he enrolled into the U.S. Army, where he met a friend Terry Nichols, a platoon leader. Soon after, Timothy was sent to Fort Riley Kansas, here is where he met one of his buddies Michael Fortier. He spent a few years there and got shipped to the Persian Gulf, where he was discharged on December 1991. On January 1993, McVeigh turned in his security company badge, gave away almost all of his belongings, got his stuff together, left New York, and started a life of gun shows, staying with army buddies, and short-term jobs. He began to start focusing on the government and their actions, and he got so infuriated with the federal government’s actions, so he went to Texas in March selling bumper stickers with slogans “Fear the Government that Fears Your Gun.” While doing this, he met up with his army buddy Terry Nichols, in Michigan on April 19. In the fall of 1993, McVeigh and Terry Nichols made a visit to Elohim City, a stronghold of anti-government activity, which involved a plot to blow up a federal building in Oklahoma City. Timothy also met with Andreas Strassmeir, who was the grandson of a founder of the Nazi party and head of security of Elohim City. He had several different meetings, that caused him to start making bombs and exploding them as well as said in the book “his recipe for the bomb he would use in Oklahoma City came from a patriot friend, who used his chemistry degree from the University of California as a Meth manufacturer.”
McVeigh was determined to strike America back. It was 9:02 when the bomb went off on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Timothy had the Mannlicher Carcanno bomb inside of the truck that he rented that was composed of deadly cocktail and other toxic chemicals. He walked out of the truck and went to the gateway vehicle. As soon as he got in, he set off one timed fuse and seconds later, set off all of the others. He officially accomplished his determination to enact in mass murder, but it wouldn’t have been completed without the help of Terry Nichols.
Many people to this day are recovering psychologically from the impact of that day.

There were 168 casualties, 19 of those being children, as well as many injured humans. Dozens of vehicles were incinerated. All of these actions left the people infuriated they acted as quick as possible. The people in the building helped the police draw the man’s face out who had the van. The people around town figured out who he was and got a name. Just about 90 minutes later, after he set a bomb, he got pulled over by a state trooper because he didn’t have a license plate. When the FBI finally discovered who he was, he was already put in jail. This is when the case began to get very tiring. There was 28,000 interviews, 43,000 investigative leads, 1 billion viewed pieces of information, and 3 and a half tons of information. This investigation had 2,000 agents. The police and FBI gathered together chemicals from his clothes and an unknown card that had “TNT @$5/stick, need more” The jury wanted Timothy McVeigh sentenced to death, leaving Timothy to be given the lethal injection. However, his right wing extremists weren’t let off the hook so easily. Since Michael Fortier knew where the bomb was going to be set at, and Terry Nichols was Timothy’s helper in making the bomb, the Federal Government charged Timothy’s army buddies with helping McVeigh in plotting the bomb. Terry and Michael had years in

prison.
“The tragedy in Oklahoma City must remind Americans of the obvious nut insufficiently stressed reality that it was very painful, baffling, and threating.

But rather than bow to fear as the attackers intended, the community banded together. Cars became ambulances. Strangers became neighbors. People literally donated the shoes off their feet. Visiting rescue workers and journalists called this spirit of generosity the “Oklahoma Standard.” This bombing was considered “international terrorism. This was a terrible tragedy for Oklahoma City and the People, and what happened was definitely devastating. After the bomb went off, the town was left looking horrendous. The floors were flat, 1/3 of the architectural structure was rubble, and 300 architectural structures were destroyed. “April 19, 1995 altered the face of Oklahoma, and the nation, forever.” Due to all that happened involving the Oklahoma City bombing, there is now a National Memorial & Museum. It is to let the Oklahoman’s recommit to the Oklahoma Standard. Just a little bit over the museum, “ It is an interactive learning experience that takes you on a chronological self-guided tour through the story of April 19, 1995, and the days, weeks and years that followed the bombing of Oklahoma City’s Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. The story tracks the remarkable journey of loss, resilience, justice, and

hope.”
Timothy McVeigh had everything to do with the Bombing of Oklahoma City and how it left the American Society devastated. This was a tragic loss for not only the city, but for the people who lost their lives. It was a stupid act of violence, which consequently ended with him put to death.
“We come here to remember those who were killed, those who survived, and those changed forever. May all who leave here know the impact of violence, and let there be comfort, strength, peace, hope and serenity” This was a devastating tragedy, and may those who lost their lives, always be remembered. We as Americans had every right to want Timothy to face death, not as revenge but as what he deserved. We are thankful it was not a lot worse, but we are definitely aware and sure that we will be able to protect ourselves in case we are faced with something like this ever again.