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It's still important for us to be able to be there and have the kids there and have them all be able to put something that is important to them on the fence for Baylee this year.

That's the way we're going to celebrate the 25th anniversary. Baylee Almon's life was snuffed out in an instant that morning, when the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was blown up in a fog of antigovernment and racist hatred. All told, 19 children were killed along with scores of others whose lives were ended or destroyed by a bomb built and set off by extremist Timothy McVeigh.

The memorial and museum were built to honor the lives lost, and community leaders had grand ambitions for commemorating the 25th anniversary Sunday. Everything, though, was put on hold and moved to the internet because of social-distancing rules.

You know, after 25, it's really less of an experience and more of something we read about and we study. And so, I really felt like this was the last anniversary where the eyes of the nation would, I believe, turn to Oklahoma City.

For Almon, the anniversary also means returning to a photograph that shocked and devastated a nation when it appeared in newspapers across the country. A little girl, covered in dirt, bloody and near death, cradled in the arms of Oklahoma City Fire Capt.

Chris Fields. The photograph came to symbolize the bombing. When I saw the paper, I was like, 'That's Baylee. Almon said she "had no idea the impact that it was going to have, no idea. I don't know if it's because I was so young and just maybe naive.

Or if it was just the fact that -- I mean, I had so much other things on my mind. I mean, I was going to have to -- at the age of 22 -- bury a child. A man stands in the blown-out doorway of a downtown Oklahoma City business just a few blocks away from the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, after the explosion, April 19, An injured woman calls out to friends as she waits for treatment, April 19, , following a car bomb blast at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City.

A pair of pickup trucks are crushed by debris from a wall that fell from a row of businesses in downtown Oklahoma City more than two blocks north of the Alfred Murrah Federal building, April 19, An Oklahoma City police car decorated with the words, "We will never forget," and a small American flag sits near the Alfred P.

This lesson plan aims to answer these questions. Lesson Plan. National Standards. Evidence Previous. Investigation Next. Conclusions: The Oklahoma City bombing resulted in the largest number of fatalities of any terrorist act in the United States, and there were 4 times as many nonfatal injuries as fatalities.

Disaster management plans should include the possibility of terrorist bombing, and medical preparedness should anticipate that most injuries will be nonfatal. The role of building collapse in fatal injuries should be considered in the design of buildings at high risk of being bombed so as to reduce injuries.