Jim's Pond - Exploring the Universe of Ideas

"Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sunday, August 15, 2004

Memorial Follow-up

The following stats are taken from my memory and may be slightly off.

From the OKC April Bombing of the Murrah Building:
168 fatalities (29 children)

700 wounded

27 Buildings destroyed

300+ Buildings damaged

Thousands of volunteers

1 volunteer fatally injured from wounds sustained in the relief effort

9:22:31 PM