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Oklahoma bombing memorial dedicated; Clinton calls it 'sacred ground'

April 19, 2000
Web posted at: 11:05 p.m. EDT (0305 GMT)


From staff and wire reports

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Speaking five years to the day since the blast, U.S. President Bill Clinton led dedication ceremonies Wednesday for the Oklahoma City National Memorial to the 149 adults and 19 children who lost their lives in the 1995 bombing.

"America will never forget," Clinton said. "There are places in our national landscape so scarred by freedom's sacrifice that they shape forever the soul of America -- Valley Forge, Gettysburg, Selma. This place is such sacred ground."


Clinton called the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building an "attack at the core of our nation's being, at the heartland of America, an attack on all of America and every American."

A crowd of 5,000 was present to hear Clinton say, "You've given too much, yet you have so much more to give." A larger group watched on TV screens set up in an adjacent parking lot.

http://edition.cnn.com/2000/US/04/19/oklahoma.city.03/