Tom Cole: “I will never forget that day. I was walking into my office, and I could feel a little shudder. The capitol is about 22…”

“I will never forget that day. I was walking into my office, and I could feel a little shudder. The capitol is about 22 miles away from the disaster site. I sat down in my chair, and my secretary immediately walked into my office. She said: Something terrible has happened in downtown Oklahoma City. Your wife--who was three blocks away working as a paralegal at the time--has just called and said that something terrible has happened. She is on the phone. I got on the phone, and she described to me what she could see from the 18th floor of an office tower at a law firm three blocks away. She said: I don't know what has occurred, but there has been a horrific explosion. There are hundreds of people in the street. People are screaming, and something awful has happened.”