We’ve come a long way in dealing with terrorism. The face of it has changed.
At the time, the Oklahoma bombing seemed so enormous. I was a reporter at the Detroit News at the time. I worked on the story day and night for three months before I ended up going on strike at the paper. I never returned to the paper.
But I never forgot the 168 people who died, among them 19 children under the age of 6.
Sure 9/11 dwarfed all that, and changed the terrorism landscape forever.
But we can’t lose focus on the local hate groups, on the potential for future lone wolves and haters like Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, who so desperately needed to have their voice heard.
And we can’t forget the 168 people who died.
