| Visitors to Oklahoma City cannot afford to miss the | | | | Time, the Reflecting Pool, the Field of Empty Chairs, |
| Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum | | | | the Survivors’ Wall, The Survivor Tree, The |
| which is a memorial to the Oklahoma City bombing. | | | | Memorial Fence, Rescuers’ Orchard, |
| It’s dedicated to the victims and survivors of | | | | Children’s Area, And Jesus Wept sculpture, the |
| the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P.Murrah Federal | | | | Journal Record Building and the Alfred P. Murrah |
| Building in Oklahoma City. Visitors to the museum get | | | | Federal Building Plaza. |
| a feel of the terrible violence and disturbance caused | | | | The most touching element of the Memorial can be |
| by bombings or any such terrorist attack, with some | | | | said to be the Field of Empty Chairs that consists of |
| having to unexpectedly bid adieu to their loved ones | | | | 168 empty chairs handcrafted from glass, bronze and |
| and others experiencing a deep shock that lasts for | | | | stone, representing each of the victims who lost their |
| much of a lifetime. The museum informs visitors of | | | | lives. The names of the victims are etched in the |
| the events surrounding the bombing through unique | | | | glass base of each chair. Arranged in nine rows, they |
| glimpses into what happened. | | | | symbolize the nine floors of the building with each |
| The Memorial is the largest of its kind in the USA, | | | | individual’s chair on the row representing the |
| and receives above 500,000 visitors every year. The | | | | floor they were on during the blast. |
| Outdoor Symbolic Memorial consists of The Gates of | | | | |