28 years ago today, I was standing in my boss' office in a pension administration firm in Oakland, CA watching the TV news coverage from Oklahoma City.
This is the pivotal event that led to my current work focusing on anti-government extremism.
The local OKC news, which was being broadcast nationwide, was desperately trying to find a family member, any family member, for a little redheaded girl who was in the building at the time of the explosion and was going into surgery and might not make it.
In an unrelated story, that same boss in whose office I spent that morning with my hand over my mouth in horror, recently hanged himself in jail after being arrested for hiring a hitman to murder his girlfriend. He killed her because he'd stolen money from her and didn't want anyone to find out.
He's the reason I've been self-employed most of my adult life. Besides being a thief and crook, he was quite the perv. He had a thing for "toe cleavage" so I had to wear closed toe shoes and boots for my time working there.
