Huffington Post : A camera captured Tim McVeigh driving his truck just before reaching his target and his "Collateral Damage" of many Children

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Huffington Post : A camera captured Tim McVeigh driving his truck past a nearby apartment building just before reaching his target and his "Collateral Damage" of many Children


My Comment : Tim McVeigh never repented of having killed so many Children - For him they were no more than "Collateral Damage" as he used to say ...... - I do not know for sure if Tim was a Racist, although there are some indications of that behavior, but I do know that the core of Racism is Hate, irrational Hate like Tim's.


Huffington Post
Pondering Timothy McVeigh's Lethal Legacy
April 19, 2010

By Al Eisele
Albert Eisele, Editor-at-Large of The Hill, has been involved in journalism, government, academia and business for nearly four decades.

Eisele, 68, was a Washington correspondent for the St. Paul Dispatch and Pioneer Press and Knight-Ridder before becoming press secretary to Vice President Walter F. Mondale.

He later helped start the non-partisan Center for National Policy, was a Fellow of the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and was assistant to William C. Norris, founder and Chairman of Control Data Corporation.

In 1989, he founded Cornerstone Associates, an international consulting firm and literary agency that represents a number of fiction writers. Albert Eisele is the author of a dual biography of Hubert Humphrey and former Sen. Eugene McCarthy.


Pondering Timothy McVeigh's Lethal Legacy

Some excerpts :

You think about how a 27-year-old anti-government fanatic named Timothy McVeigh loaded a truck with 4,800 pounds of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil and detonated it in directly in front of the nine-story Alfred P. Murragh Federal Building at 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995. The explosion, which was felt 40 miles away, created a 30-foot crater and blew away the front of the building, collapsing its floors and trapping victims inside.

And if you tour the Memorial's museum, located in a former newspaper building facing the Murragh Building, which also was badly damaged, as were some 300 other surrounding buildings, you will be even more moved. It's a stunning museum, but the most stunning thing is sitting in a darkened room and listening to an audio of a routine hearing underway at the nearby Oklahoma Water Resources Board, and then hearing the actual explosion and confusion that followed.

Equally unforgettable is the news footage taken minutes after the explosion and the video of the chaos that followed as rescue workers tried to dig victims out of the rubble. Especially chilling is the footage from a security camera that captured McVeigh driving his truck past a nearby apartment building just before reaching his target. The axle housing of his truck, which was found 575 feet away from the explosion, is also on display, along with hundreds of personal items and artifacts.

There's much more to see and hear at this incredibly moving Memorial, including the 168 metal chairs arrayed alongside a 318-foot reflecting pool that represents the people who died that terrible day. But perhaps the most moving sights, especially if you go there at night, are the illuminated metal chairs bearing the names of the victims, especially the small chairs with the names of the 19 children who were in the building's day care center that fateful morning.

And then, as you proceed around the Memorial grounds, you encounter hundreds of hand-painted ceramic tiles from children, one of which asks the impossible question: "Can't we all just get along?" And along the wall outside the Memorial are hundreds of personal messages and notes, including teddy bears and children's toys. And just across the street is an arresting statue of a Christ figure holding its hands over its eyes as though unable to comprehend the senseless violence before it.

Ironically, my initial visit took place shortly after I arrived in Oklahoma on the same day that hundreds of people gathered in Littleton, Colo., to dedicate a memorial to the victims of the Columbine High School massacre, and only a few months after I drove from Washington to Oklahoma and passed by Blacksburg, Va., where 32 students were murdered by a crazed gunman on April 16, 2007, and Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., the scene of an historic desegregation battle half a century ago
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