14 Years

It almost snuck by unnoticed, but it's been 14 years since the Oklahoma City bombing. I was 11, in about the 4th grade. I remember the Newsweek cover with a picture of the ruined remnants of the Federal Building on it. I remember the initial reaction thinking that it was foreign terrorism and then remembering how genuinely shocked people were when it turned out to be domestic terrorism.

The world has changed so much since then- it's tempting to move beyond Oklahoma City, consign it to history and forget about it entirely, but we need to remember things like this. We need not to forget. There is precisely zero in the way of historical memory in this country- and if we don't remember, we are condemned to relive and make our mistakes all over again.

So pause. And remember.