Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial -- AL State Capitol grounds, Montgomery AL
N 32° 22.684 W 086° 17.997
16S E 565851 N 3582558
A small plaque at the Alabama State Capitol formerly marked the location of the Dogwood tree planted to memorialize the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. The tree is gone, but the memorial plaque remains.
Waymark Code: WMWFHA
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 08/28/2017
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The waymark plaque at the Alabama state capitol building formerly marked a memorial Dogwood tree, which in 2017 has now been removed. The plaque however, remains as a permanent Memorial to the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing of 19 April 1995.
On 19 Apr 1995 a small band of domestic right-wing terrorists detonated a homemade fertilizer bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. 168 innocent civilians and children died in the explosion, almost 700 sustained serious injuries.
Of the 3 terrorists, all were tried in federal court for crimes and offenses related to the bombing. One served a long prison sentence and was paroled, one remains in federal custody (as of 2017) and will remain in prison for the remainder of his life, and one was executed.
The names the people who were killed on that horrible day be found the Oklahoma City Memorial website here: (
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The plaque at the Alabama state capital reads as follows reads as follows:
"Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints. Psalm 116:15
This Dogwood was planted by the people of Alabama in honor of those killed in the Oklahoma City bombing of April 19, 1995."