Okla. Bombing Victims' Children Build New Lives

Dion Thomas' life began spiraling out of control after her mother was killed in the Oklahoma City bombing, when the straight-A student started skipping classes and saw her grades slip to D's, F's and incompletes.

She stayed in her bedroom for days, unable to come out. No one let her see her mother's body to say goodbye, thinking it was better for her daughter to remember how she was alive.

''I pretty much almost dropped out of high school,'' said Thomas, who was a sophomore when her mother, Social Security Administration employee Charlotte Thomas, died in the April 19, 1995, attack.

Thomas limped to graduation with no idea what her future held. But 15 years later, she is a college graduate working toward an advanced degree in speech pathology at Howard University in Washington, D.C., all because of a fund that ensured her tuition would be covered because of the loss she suffered as a child.
Much more at this link: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/04/19/us/AP-US-Oklahoma-City-Bombing-The-Children.html

I'm glad to hear this. I'm sure there were a lot of "casualties" beyond those that were in the building.

a tsunami that keeps on coming.......... :-(

The effects ripple out and move a lot of people. Where they are and who they determines how they cope.