I took me a moment or two to remember what this Microsoft OneDrive Memory from this Day was remembering.
It does seem right that it was in April of some year early in this current century that I was up north, in Oklahoma.
Oklahoma City, to be precise.
That weeping statue of Jesus is part of the Oklahoma City National Memorial, sometimes called the Murrah Memorial, due to the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building being the building which was blown up in the worst terrorist attack on American soil, til the 9/11 attacks.
Experiencing the Oklahoma City National Memorial was a sobering experience of the sort I have only experienced a few times previous.
Such as being at Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, also known as the location of Custer's Last Stand.
That same roadtrip which brought me to where Custer had his last stand, in Montana, also took me to the South Dakota site of the Wounded Knee Massacre. The memorial at this location is not as elaborate as the Little Bighorn complex. But, it was sobering, standing at this location, reading the simple signage explaining what had happened at this location.
And then there was another sobering experience, this century, in Texas, near the town known as Waco, a location known as the Mount Carmel Branch-Davidian Compound. When I visited this location there were still some Branch-Davidian survivors living there. You could walk among the graves of those killed. And still see the burned remains of the buildings, and the buried bus in which many died.
Interesting timing to have a statue of a weeping Jesus show up on Easter...
