Happy Anniversary Okie City!

[planosteve]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W6KlZd6Qic#t=154

[BillB]

I worked with a lady, when that happened, who's husband got blown up in that building. He worked for HUD.
I often wonder how she is.

[planosteve]

Here is a much longer one, 2 hr. It's called "A Noble Lie". It is very good if you care to watch it.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHDIhxeMOcI

[GFB]

Here is a much longer one, 2 hr. It's called "A Noble Lie". It is very good if you care to watch it.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHDIhxeMOcI

Let me guess..McVeigh was Mossad!

[BillB]

Today is also the 22nd anniversary of the Waco massacre.
McVeigh planned OK City to coincide with it.

[GFB]

No..this is what today is..

240 years ago today..


At about 5 a.m., 700 British troops, on a mission to capture Patriot leaders and seize a Patriot arsenal, march into Lexington to find 77 armed minutemen under Captain John Parker waiting for them on the town’s common green. British Major John Pitcairn ordered the outnumbered Patriots to disperse, and after a moment’s hesitation the Americans began to drift off the green. Suddenly, the “shot heard around the world” was fired from an undetermined gun, and a cloud of musket smoke soon covered the green. When the brief Battle of Lexington ended, eight Americans lay dead or dying and 10 others were wounded. Only one British soldier was injured, but the American Revolution had begun.

[GFB]

It was all about confiscating their guns..


By 1775, tensions between the American colonies and the British government approached the breaking point, especially in Massachusetts, where Patriot leaders formed a shadow revolutionary government and trained militias to prepare for armed conflict with the British troops occupying Boston. In the spring of 1775, General Thomas Gage, the British governor of Massachusetts, received instructions from England to seize all stores of weapons and gunpowder accessible to the American insurgents. On April 18, he ordered British troops to march against the Patriot arsenal at Concord and capture Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock, known to be hiding at Lexington.

[planosteve]

Nobody blows up their babies so they can keep their guns.

[ann jusko]

We closed on our place in Port Aransas that day. We knew something dreadful had happened (my hubby told me "domestic") on the way to closing. When we got the keys and moved in, we watched in horror. So, that's an anniversary that's bittersweet to us.

[GFB]

Nobody blows up their babies so they can keep their guns.

That's why it's important to remember what Apeil 19th actually commemorates.