Sally Kelly went to the Oklahoma City National Memorial to find a piece of her past recently.
The 20th anniversary of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City that killed 168 people including 19 children is Sunday.
Kelly knew six of the victims.
"It was pretty devastating and for a long time we didn’t know who was gone," she said. "When you find out it’s even harder. There were so many funerals. That was bad."
Kelly said that the sting of loss never goes away and being back at the memorial site makes it even stronger. However, she’s stronger than the pain and won’t be kept away.
With flowers in her hand she searched for the names etched on chairs of those who touched her heart.
“There are people that need to be remembered. David Walker. He went to our high school," Kelly said. "This is my cousin. She was an attorney."
She said she’s found some clarity through the tragedy in the last 20 years of coming back.
“You know, it shows how quickly life can change. So if you have fences to mend, you need to do it. If you have people to say ‘I love you’ to, you need to do it,” Kelly said.
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