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Lessons Learned: Community Response

June 28, 2010

The Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum translates the Lessons Learned from the Oklahoma City bombing through an engaging educational experience. By using our Archives for research, visiting the Museum or Memorial, experiencing our programs and hearing from our "Experts in the Field", visitors are able to apply these Lessons Learned firsthand.

These lessons are identified by four key categories; Community Response, Justice, Impact of Violence and Terrorism, and Memorialization. Each of these lessons can be found and followed throughout the Memorial Museum, and here on our website.

Community Response

Such an incident is so difficult to understand, but in Oklahoma City the response was not what might have been anticipated. Instead of filling people with fear, the reaction was one of pulling people together and helping each other. One journalist captured this when she said her first image of the Oklahoma City bombing was not of people running away from the building but running to the building to help each other.

Click here to experience what was unique about the response in Oklahoma City that ultimately lead to what is now known as the Oklahoma Standard.

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