Bill Clinton’s touching tribute to Oklahoma City bombing victims
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Bill Clinton Leads Tribute on 20th Anniversary of Oklahoma City Bombing
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/20/us/oklahoma-city-bombing-20th-anniversary-bill-clinton.html
OKLAHOMA CITY — Twenty years to the hour after a homemade bomb gutted this city’s federal office building, killing 168 people and a nation’s complacency about terrorism, a delegation led by former President Bill Clinton gathered here on Sunday to honor the dead and to celebrate the city’s resiliency.
Assembled on the footprint of the former Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, now a loblolly-pine-shaded memorial, a parade of leaders offered repeated tributes to Oklahomans’ response to the tragedy, citing a construction worker who gave his boots to rescuers and schoolchildren who donated their pennies for aid.
Civic leaders have sought to label the selfless response to the bombing the Oklahoma Standard — a brand, they say, that seeks to turn the horror of the bombing into a force for continuing good. Some say the tragedy united citizens in a way that propelled an economic renaissance and a rebuilding of Oklahoma City’s downtown as well.
But it fell to Mr. Clinton, whose speech here 20 years ago at a memorial service began a turnaround in what was a flailing presidency, to underscore the true significance of this anniversary.
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