OKLAHOMA CITY ( KFOR ) – The Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum is taking stories from the Murrah bombing beyond its walls.
It’s a journey of hope across the state to inspire people to live up to the Oklahoma standard and their first stop was at Deer Creek Middle School.
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“I just knew that if I was in their shoes, then I would have been affected by it deeply,” Deer Creek Middle School student Jace Robertson said.
The history hit close to home for kids who weren’t even alive on April 19, 1995. Thursday, students at Deer Creek Middle School got the chance to hear and learn about how our lives changed forever.
“I think it was just pretty crazy that like, someone would do something like that,” student Layla Yeung said.
They were the first stop in the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum’s “Journey of Hope.” They’re traveling across all of the state’s 77 counties and sharing their 30th anniversary message for next year which is “A day of darkness, years of light.” It’s an effort to inspire everyone to embody the Oklahoma Standard.