James Apo assignment 4: A World in Pictures

This picture shows a firefighter carrying a critically injured infant after the domestic terrorist attack upon the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995 occurred. Before this picture was taken, an enraged, over the top gun rights activist named Timothy McVeigh had just planted and blown up explosives in his car at the building as a means of showing that he believed the government was being too prohibitive on said rights. The 9/11 tragedy was more than 6 years away and at the time of this event, an event of such magnitude had never occurred in America. This really makes me wonder how an American could do that to other Americans, and especially treat the childcare center right next to the building with such collateral damage. The firefighter in the picture looks very dejected, and fortunately you cannot see the traumatized child's face. The crucial scene not pictured is the fact that 168 people died and over 680 suffered various injuries.The whole situation was chaotic and it really opened up our eyes to terrorism on American soil, in particular even potentially from our own citizens.