April 19, 2011, marks the 16th anniversary of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, OK. In the attack against the American federal government by American citizens, 168 people were killed on that fateful day in 1995, including 19 children, who were within the building’s daycare facility.
It’s easy to jump on the rhetoric of the recent historic past in the United States. The OKC bombing was clearly planned and executed to coincide with the disastrous siege on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, TX, on April 19, 1993–76 people died in the raid, including 20 children and Branch Davidian leader, David Koresh.
Four years and a day after Tim McVeigh and his co-conspirators’ apparent loss of conscience, and McVeigh’s supposed detonation of the truck bomb in front of the Murrah Federal Building, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold planned and executed an assault on Columbine High School, killing 12 students and 1 teacher. The Columbine massacre took place on April 20, 1999.
Jump ahead another decade-plus-one and that sets us in the Gulf of Mexico on the early morning of April 20, 2010. There, the off-shore rig, Deepwater Horizon, exploded, killing 11 and giving way to the worst oil spill in history.
Another morsel that folks like to toss into the April 20th mix…Adolf Hitler’s birthday. Ironic? Coincidence? What… Did you think I was going to say that on 4/20 at 4:20 p.m. a bunch of people stop to smoke weed and indulge in a lackadaisical nature?
You gotta say, all this tragedy surrounding April 19th and 20th is interesting, regardless of obvious connection or mere coincidence.
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Steve
April 19th, 2011 - 1:35:42 PM
My brother would likely have you add his wedding anniversary (4/19) to that list...
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