From Stephanie Quintero & Alex Ingber:

We began our day with a trip to the Woman’s Museum in Dallas. The Museum was filled with memorabilia and personal items from the women of the equal rights era. The Museum left us with a feeling of power.

After the Museum we went on a 3 hour ride to Oklahoma City. When we arrived in OKC we went straight to the Oklahoma City Memorial where we discussed the tragedy of the bombing and remembered the loss of innocent lives.

Some of us were touched by the memorial while others were distracted by the people and items around us. We then met David Yeagley, a Native American who also is an American Patriot.

He was living in Oklahoma City at the time of the bombing and he described what the city was like on that eventful day. He also spoke about the opera he wrote to commemorate the Holocaust and how we need to listen to each culture’s stories.

We were then taken across the street to meet with Christopher Emery a film producer who is making a documentary about the OKC bombing. He is passionate about the fact that Timothy McVeigh did not act alone.

His goal is to shed light on the conspiracy that he believes surrounds the bombing.

After that meeting we went to celebrate Daniel Bressler’s 17th birthday. We went to a local synagogue and had some time to play in their gymnasium and eat birthday cake. Then we went to an Oklahoma City Redhawks minor league baseball game. Luckily the Redhawks won 7-5 in extra innings.

Etgar 36 dancing the “Y.M.C.A.” between innings of the baseball game

Ben Tepfer helping lead the crowd in singing “Oklahoma” during the 5th inning

As a follow up to the afternoons activities we went back to the memorial and the scene was much more surreal and thought provoking at night when it was all light up. Many of the 32 participants felt the pain and suffering of the people who died and their families. The impact of the memorial at night was so strong that many of us were at a loss for words and the emotions were indescribable.