Capt. Don Browning, with his dog, Gunny, searched for bodies for 40 straight days.
"I still suffer through that same nightmare," Browning said. "I dream that I'm crawling through the rubble. It's dark, and I hear children crying from in front of me and to my right. I begin to feel the ground tremble underneath me, which turns into a draw, almost a rumbling monstrous draw. And I turn and run, and the kids quit crying and I feel very guilty that I didn't get to them.
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Alan Prokop was one of the first rescuers on the scene.
"As I moved to the area around the elevator shaft I observed a hand and arm to be coming out of the debris and waving back and forth," Prokop said. I walked over and attempted to uncover the body connected to the hand. It appeared to be a female. Her hand was warm. She was clutching my hand. I held it as it squeezed and I could hear muffled moans from behind the concrete."Then he said, "I could hear water running in the area and I screamed to the other rescuers that we had to get the water turned off, that I felt she was drowning. The rescue worker behind the slab hollered that that wasn't water, it's blood, and he held up his hands and I observed they were covered with blood." After a few more minutes, "her hand got very still and started to get cold. I checked the wrist for a pulse and found none," he said.
"I did not control myself very well, " he said, "and I advised the other rescue workers that there was a lady here that they needed to handle and I didn't feel like I could stay there anymore so I moved into the day care area and began to work there."
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Cynthia Ashwood lost her sister, Susan Ferrell.
"I didn't realize how hard birthdays were," said Ashwood. "And not seeing my sister … [has] been very haunting," she said.
Ashwood remembered her sister as she pointed to a picture of her. "That's Susie and she is sitting on a tree that is out in the front yard of the farm, I call it, where we now live," said Ashwood. "And she is embracing my two children, Rachael, who at that time was 1, and Donald at that time was 6. And they loved her very, very much."
"Albert and I decided to tell him [Donald] together and I think that was one of the hardest things for me to do," said Ashwood. "And he's only 8 now and he has his bouts with crying. And I know he was not her child, but she was such an important person to him, and like many children probably do, will turn around and ask me, 'Well, Aunt Susie, is she dead?' And of course I have to explain 'yes,'" she said.
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"I still suffer through that same nightmare," Browning said. "I dream that I'm crawling through the rubble. It's dark, and I hear children crying from in front of me and to my right. I begin to feel the ground tremble underneath me, which turns into a draw, almost a rumbling monstrous draw. And I turn and run, and the kids quit crying and I feel very guilty that I didn't get to them.
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Alan Prokop was one of the first rescuers on the scene.
"As I moved to the area around the elevator shaft I observed a hand and arm to be coming out of the debris and waving back and forth," Prokop said. I walked over and attempted to uncover the body connected to the hand. It appeared to be a female. Her hand was warm. She was clutching my hand. I held it as it squeezed and I could hear muffled moans from behind the concrete."Then he said, "I could hear water running in the area and I screamed to the other rescuers that we had to get the water turned off, that I felt she was drowning. The rescue worker behind the slab hollered that that wasn't water, it's blood, and he held up his hands and I observed they were covered with blood." After a few more minutes, "her hand got very still and started to get cold. I checked the wrist for a pulse and found none," he said.
"I did not control myself very well, " he said, "and I advised the other rescue workers that there was a lady here that they needed to handle and I didn't feel like I could stay there anymore so I moved into the day care area and began to work there."
http://www.okcbombing.net/News%20Articles/painful_memories.htm
Cynthia Ashwood lost her sister, Susan Ferrell.
"I didn't realize how hard birthdays were," said Ashwood. "And not seeing my sister … [has] been very haunting," she said.
Ashwood remembered her sister as she pointed to a picture of her. "That's Susie and she is sitting on a tree that is out in the front yard of the farm, I call it, where we now live," said Ashwood. "And she is embracing my two children, Rachael, who at that time was 1, and Donald at that time was 6. And they loved her very, very much."
"Albert and I decided to tell him [Donald] together and I think that was one of the hardest things for me to do," said Ashwood. "And he's only 8 now and he has his bouts with crying. And I know he was not her child, but she was such an important person to him, and like many children probably do, will turn around and ask me, 'Well, Aunt Susie, is she dead?' And of course I have to explain 'yes,'" she said.
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