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Oklahoma City, Okla., April 26, -- Nighttime, exterior shot of Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK. FEMA/Released News Photo.!
The Oklahoma City bombing, 25 years later: The picture and the pain
The blast came only hours after the Almon family gathered to celebrate the first birthday of little Baylee.
It's a cliché to say the baby was her mother's light, but she was.
Normally, it was just the two of them, but that was a night to celebrate and the extended-family gathering at their apartment in Oklahoma City was to be the first of many the cousins and grandparents and aunts and uncles would mark together.
That was the plan.
The next morning, April 19, 1995, Baylee's mom, Aren, dropped her off at day care -- on the second floor of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Then, at 9:02 a.m., a shock wave was unleashed by the truck bomb on the street below.
It thundered through the American heartland, changing everything for the Almon family, changing everything for the families of all 168 people killed, for the families of the more than 500 injured, for Oklahoma City -- and for much of a nati