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For America, the bombing was an introduction to mass-casualty terrorism. The enemy was no longer uniformed platoons but lone extremists in our midst. They could not be easily ferreted out--or understood. But Oklahoma City also wrote the book on recovery. The survivors have become indispensable companions for the...
Yet on any given day, a steady stream of cars find their way there. On weekends, more than 1,000 visitors may show up to look at the little town that taught us that no place is beyond terrorism's reach. They come from every state in the union, climbing...
And if the answer is that we are entertaining both at once, hope and despair at either end of the table, we had better learn to do it gracefully. "We're living through an eclipse of normality, a twilight landscape," says Edward Linenthal, author of The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City...
He adds that it is important that all this complexity be a product of a slow, painstaking process. "The language of 'healing' and 'closure,'" he says, "is the obscene language of forgetfulness." Yet he also says the effect of the new memorials is to make one both remember and forget...
"Memorials are a product of who we are right now," says Linenthal. "We are a people negotiating our identities--individual, corporate, ethnic and more. In part, we are doing this by creating and feeling the power of memorials."