Oklahoma bomb victims remembered

WITH 168 moments of silence and the message that goodness can overcome evil, victims of the worst act of domestic terrorism in US history were remembered yesterday at the Oklahoma City National Memorial.

Some 1,600 people inside the First United Methodist Church fell silent at 9.02am local time, the moment the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building was destroyed exactly 10 years earlier.

Some brought teddy bears and flowers to be placed at the memorial, which includes 168 empty chairs symbolising the human cost. “All of us respect you for the way you’ve borne tragedy over the last decade and for your great devotion to the memory of those who died here,” Vice President Dick Cheney told survivors and loved ones.