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| Firemanjim |
OK,I was bad, took a cheap shot,mea culpa. | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
A list, by floor and location, of those killed in the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995: NINTH FLOOR Drug Enforcement Administration Shelly D. Bland, 25, of Tuttle Carrol June "Chip" Fields, 48, Guthrie Rona Linn Kuehner-Chafey, 35, Oklahoma City Carrie Ann Lenz, 26, Chotaw Kenneth Glenn McCullough, 36, Edmond U.S. Secret Service Cynthia L. Brown, 26, Oklahoma City Donald Ray Leonard, 50, Edmond Mickey B. Maroney, 50, Oklahoma City Linda G. McKinney, 47, Oklahoma City Kathy Lynn Seidl, 39, Bethel Alan G. Whicher, 40, Edmond EIGHTH FLOOR U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Ted L. Allen, 48, Norman Peter R. Avillanoza, 56, Oklahoma City David Neil Burkett, 47, Oklahoma City Donald Earl Burns, Sr., 63, Oklahoma City Kimberly Kay Clark, 39, Oklahoma City Susan Jane Ferrell, 37, Oklahoma City Dr. George Michael Howard, 45, Vallejo, Calif. Antonio "Tony" C. Reyes, 55, Edmond Lanny Lee David Scroggins, 46, Yukon Leora Lee Sells, 57, Oklahoma City Jules A. Valdez, 51, Edmond David Jack Walker, 54, Edmond Michael D. Weaver, 54, Edmond Frances "Fran" Ann Williams, 48, Oklahoma City Clarence Eugene Wilson, Sr. 49, Oklahoma SEVENTH FLOOR U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Diane E. (Hollingsworth) Althouse, 45, Edmond Andrea Yvette Blanton, 33, Oklahoma City Kim R. Cousins, 33, Midwest City Diana Lynne Day, 38, Oklahoma City Castine Brooks Hearn Deveroux, 49, Oklahoma City Judy J. (Froh) Fisher, 45, Oklahoma City Linda Louise Florence, 43, Oklahoma City J. Colleen Guiles, 59, Oklahoma City Thompson Eugene "Gene" Hodges, Jr., 54, Norman Ann Kreymborg, 57, Oklahoma City Teresa Lea Taylor Lauderdale, 41, Shawnee Mary Leasure-Rentie, 39, Bethany James A. McCarthy II, 53, Edmond Betsy J. (Beebe) McGonnell, 47, Norman Patricia Ann Nix, 47, Edmond Terry Smith Rees, 41, Midwest City John Thomas Stewart, 51, Oklahoma City John Karl Van Ess III, 67, Chickasha Jo Ann Whittenberg, 35, Oklahoma City SIXTH FLOOR U.S. Marine Corps Recruiting Sgt. Benjamin LaRanzo Davis, USMC, 29, Edmond Capt. Randolph A. Guzman, USMC, 28, Castro Valley, Calif. FIFTH FLOOR U.S. Department of Agriculture Olen Burl Bloomer, 61, Moore James E. Boles, 50, Oklahoma City Dr. Margaret L. "Peggy" Clark, 42, Chickasha Richard "Dick" Cummins, 55, Mustang Doris "Adele" Higginbottom, 44, Oklahoma City Carole Sue Khalil, 50, Oklahoma City Rheta Bender Long, 60, Oklahoma City U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Paul Gregory Beatty Broxterman, 42, Edmond U.S. Customs Office Paul D. Ice, 42, Midwest City Claude Authur Medearis, S.S.A., 41, Norman FOURTH FLOOR U.S. Department of Transportation/Federal Highway Lucio Aleman, Jr., 33, Oklahoma City Mark Allen Bolte, 28, Oklahoma City Michael Carrillo, 44, Oklahoma City Larry James Jones, 46. Yukon James K. Martin, 34, Oklahoma City Ronota Ann Newberry-Woodbridge, 31, Edmond Jerry Lee Parker, 45, Norman Michelle A. Reeder, 33, Oklahoma City Rick L. Tomlin, 46, Piedmont Johnny Allen Wade, 42, Edmond John A. Youngblood, 52, Yukon U.S. Army Recruiting Battalion Sgt. 1st Class Lola Bolden, U.S. Army, 40, Birmingham, Ala. Karen Gist Carr, 32, Midwest City Peggy Louise Holland, 37, Oklahoma City John C. Moss III., 50, Oklahoma City Victoria (Vickey) L. Sohn, 36, Moore Dolores (Dee) Stratton, 51, Moore Kayla Marie Titsworth, 3.50, Lawton Wanda Lee Watkins, 49, Oklahoma City THIRD FLOOR Defense Security Service Harley Richard Cottingham, 46, Oklahoma City Peter L. DeMaster, 44, Oklahoma City Norma "Jean" Johnson, 62, Oklahoma City Larry L. Turner, 42, Oklahoma City Robert G. Westberry, 57, Oklahoma City Federal Employees Credit Union Woodrow Clifford "Woody" Brady, 41, Oklahoma City Kimberly Ruth Burgess, 29, Oklahoma City Kathy A. Finley, 44, Yukon Jamie (Fialkowski) Genzer, 32, Wellston Sheila R. Gigger-Driver, 28, Oklahoma City Linda Coleen Housley, 53, Oklahoma City Robbin Ann Huff, 37, Bethany Christi Yolanda Jenkins, 32, Edmond Alvin J. Justes, 54, Oklahoma City Valerie Jo Koelsch, 33, Oklahoma City Kathy Cagle Leinen, 47, Oklahoma City Claudette (Duke) Meek, 43, Oklahoma City Frankie Ann Merrell, 23, Oklahoma City Jill Diane Randolph, 27, Oklahoma City Claudine Ritter, 48, Oklahoma City Christy Rosas, 22, Moore Sonja Lynn Sanders, 27, Moore Karan Howell Shepherd, 27, Moore Victoria Jeanette Texter, 37, Oklahoma City Virginia M. Thompson, 56, El Reno Tresia Jo "Mathes" Worton, 28, Oklahoma City SECOND FLOOR America's Kids Child Development Center Baylee Almon, 1, Oklahoma City Danielle Nicole Bell, 15 months, Oklahoma City Zachary Taylor Chavez, 3, Oklahoma City Dana LeAnne Cooper, 24, Moore Anthony Christopher Cooper II, 2, Moore Antonio Ansara Cooper Jr., 6 months, Midwest City Aaron M. Coverdale, 5.50, Oklahoma City Elijah S. Coverdale, 2.50, Oklahoma City Jaci Rae Coyne, 14 months, Moore Brenda Faye Daniels, 42, Oklahoma City Taylor Santoi Eaves, 8 months, Midwest City Tevin D'Aundrae Garrett, 16 months, Midwest City Kevin "Lee" Gottshall II, 6 months, Norman Wanda Lee Howell, 34, Spencer Blake Ryan Kennedy, 1.50, Amber Dominique Ravae (Johnson)-London, 2, Oklahoma City Chase Dalton Smith, 3, Oklahoma City Colton Wade Smith, 2, Oklahoma City VISITOR Scott D. Williams, 24, Tuttle FIRST FLOOR Social Security Administration Teresa Antionette Alexander, 33, Oklahoma City Richard A. Allen, 46, Oklahoma City Pamela Cleveland Argo, 36, Oklahoma City Saundra G. (Sandy) Avery, 34, Midwest City Calvin Battle, 62, Oklahoma City Peola Battle, 56, Oklahoma City Oleta C. Biddy, 54, Tuttle Casandra Kay Booker, 25, Oklahoma City Carol Louise Bowers, 53, Yukon Peachlyn Bradley, 3, Oklahoma City Gabreon D.L. Bruce, 3 months, Oklahoma City Katherine Louise Cregan, 60, Oklahoma City Ashley Megan Eckles, 4, Guthrie Don Fritzler, 64, Oklahoma City Mary Anne Fritzler, 57, Oklahoma City Laura Jane Garrison, 61, Oklahoma City Margaret Betterton Goodson, 54, Oklahoma City Ethel L. Griffin, 55, Edmond Cheryl E. Hammon, 44, Oklahoma City Ronald Vernon Harding, Sr., 55, Oklahoma City Thomas Lynn Hawthorne, Sr., 52, Choctaw Dr. Charles E. Hurlburt, 73, Oklahoma City Jean Nutting Hurlburt, 67, Oklahoma City Raymond "Lee" Johnson, 59, Oklahoma City LaKesha Richardson Levy, 21, Midwest City Aurelia Donna Luster, 43, Guthrie Robert Lee Luster, Jr., 45, Guthrie Rev. Gilbert X. Martinez, 35, Oklahoma City Cartney J. McRaven, 19, Midwest City Derwin W. Miller, 27, Oklahoma City Eula Leigh Mitchell, 64, Oklahoma City Emilio Tapia, 50, Oklahoma City Charlotte Andrea Lewis Thomas, 43, Oklahoma City Michael George Thompson, 47, Yukon LaRue A. Treanor, 55, Guthrie Luther H. Treanor, 61, Guthrie Robert N. Walker, Jr., 52, Oklahoma City Julie Marie Welch, 23, Oklahoma City W. Stephen Williams, 42, Cashion Sharon Louise Wood-Chesnut, 47, Oklahoma City General Services Administration Steven Douglas Curry, 44, Norman Michael L. Loudenslager, 48, Harrah THOSE KILLED IN SURROUNDING AREA Rescue Worker Rebecca Needham Anderson, 37, Midwest City Athenian Building (Job Corps) Anita Christine Hightower, 27, Oklahoma City Kathryn Elizabeth Ridley, 24, Oklahoma City Oklahoma Water Resources Board Building Robert N. Chipman, 51, Edmond Trudy Jean Rigney, 31, Midwest City | ||
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| Jb2 |
FMJ, 'know you meant no harm, love ya like a brother anyway. Your name was brought on several occasions involving alcohol and swapping lies from other rides.  Sunset. 9/11/04. In the company of a close friend, however, we shared this part of the journey separately, each taking a turn through the memorial and the other watching the bikes. The welcome solitude of more than a hundred miles in the saddle lay ahead before we'd turn in that night. By far the most profound moment of the trip. This kind of stuff don't come knocking on your door or jump out of your tv screen, that's for sure. | ||
| Ebear |
In light of this and all the other moments on this trip so far,I feel I finally understand " Out of Words "........Thanks Ferris and JB2... | ||
| Firemanjim |
Well,I always though "single mom" meant some one that had had kids without a husband,not a "divorced" mom. And RE the lies and alcohol--never happened. | ||
| Pdxs3t |
All I can say is WOW! A very moving pictorial, looking forward to seeing the further adventures of Jerry and JB2. | ||
| Outrider |
Wonderful photo essay. Thanks! Ferris, was just teasing with the question. Knowing your humor on the BWB I didn't think you would take it as a negative. Always figured you had "Buell's Secret Weapon" hidden out at the ThunderDome and was just doing some market research for Erik. I sincerely hope you continue your travels through winter. Your pics and postings will give us snowbound folks something to look forward to. Enjoy that Zook. I have secretly lusted for one since they came out especially since Honda won't sell their version in the US. | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
thank you all for your words. i was up very late last night getting these pix posted, thru non-stop tears, and will add a little commentary about our visit to the Memorial when my eyes dry up. Outrider, thank you too, and i'm sorry if it seemed i took your post negatively, as i did not. i just went back and edited in a "  " after my comments to you, which i SHOULD have put there in the first place, but my mind was reeling from the pix i had just edited, reduced, and was getting ready to post. i'm seeing the pix from my trip for the first time as i edit them for posting - i have purposely resisted looking "ahead" thru my memory cards. i am, much the same as you folks, living this trip thru these photos and words, and it is a breathtaking experience. the Oklahoma City Memorial was something i'll never forget. to be continued... FB | ||
| CJXB |
Well before I die I fully intend to take a long trip somewhere through the states with lots of pics, and it's all because of you and this thread !! Wow, how cool was that trip !!! CJ | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
thanks CJ. | ||
| Outrider |
Ferris...didn't perceive any negativism at all. I assumed correctly that your cyberpersonality would understand and deal with my original question with your typical predictable humor/wisdom before I posted it. Was just confirming that in my second post and hoping you are planning more such adventures for the benefit of those of us stuck in the snowbelt. | ||
| Edmanning |
Ouh,Ahh, CJs right Jerry Haughton Motivational Biker. Just finished mowing the grass and was more than ready for a frostie. But Nooo, now I've got to get out Ferris's Fault for some triple digit deer dodge before the rain sets in. Ed "Hillbilly" Manning | ||
| Pdxs3t |
Jerry, remember during one of our phone conversations not too long ago and the topic of inspiration? | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
beer??? | ||
| Bomber |
JH -- thanks, again, for helping us all share your adventure -- the pics from Ok City were, of course, particularly moving -- I've seen similar personal memorils being made at the Wall in DC, and at seemingly random places on the road across the country -- taking nothing away from the public planners, architects and sculters who have made so many great places in our land, I'll say this, the best memorials are made by just plain folks | ||
| Pdxs3t |
OK, BEER! | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
Outrider, i'll never stop riding. now that i carry a digital camera it makes it easier to hang pix here (sans thumb, no less), and i'll continue to do so as long as Blake will have me. Ed, glad to hear you're taking "FF" out for a good spankin' - it deserves it. i'll be getting around to posting the pix from our visit with you here in a bit. Bomber, thanks. the Memorial, well... ...well, i've been at the keyboard quite some time now, writing and re-writing, writing and deleting, and i cannot find the right words. maybe i AM out of words. please appreciate the photos, and take a moment to look at each name in the list of those who lost their lives so brutally that day, especially the children – they deserve that respect. it’s okay to cry. i did while we were there, and i am now. to be continued. | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
DAY NINE, cont. me 'n JB2 didn't talk much when we finished at the Memorial. we couldn't. and we didn't want to. we each put in a private cell call to home. later, we admitted to each other that the words came hard during the calls, choked with emotion. as to each other, neither of us said much on the phone. "We're here at the Memorial. We're okay. We've got to ride." riding. now, perhaps more than ever before, riding was peace. we knew, without saying as much, that we needed to get on the bikes and ride. the enormity of what we had just experienced needed to be processed, the mind needed to clear and heal, the heart needed to mourn, and mend. riding. quietly we saddled up and hit the interstate, I-40 east, into the night. alone. together, but alone. sadness. emptiness. riding. into the night. healing. mile by mile, healing. riding.  we finally shut down at one in the morning in Clarksville, Arkansas. we were drained. it's hard, as i type, as i remember, to put this day to bed. September 11, 2004. i'll never forget. -------------------------------------- TOTAL MILEAGE FOR THE DAY: 696.8 (Message edited by jerry_haughton on October 26, 2004) | ||
| Jb2 |
..yup, that's just the way I remember it. | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
DAY TEN, Sunday 9/12/2004: not much to tell you about Arkansas. pretty much when you cross the border from the west everyone starts talking funny. you want to laugh at first - it sounds all the world like they're making fun of people who talk that way - until you realize that IS how they talk. then you find yourself talking that way, too, but thinking you're gonna get your ••• kicked for making fun of them, but they just figure you're a local and never bat an eye. oh, and if you live in Arkansas, you HAVE to have a razorback plastered on your rig somewhere - i think it's actually a law. that being the case, JB2 picked up this bad boy at a gas stop, so the folks would know for sure that we belonged:  (Message edited by jerry_haughton on October 27, 2004) | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
DAY TEN, cont.  NOW we're stylin'. well, that's it for the pix for this day. yep, y'heard me right. there was another hurricane approachin', and we needed to get to Deal's Gap ahead of it. today was another lesson in the "JB2's Justifiably Famous 'Feed Bag' Method of Motorcycle Touring" ( ), and there was precious little time for photo ops. i don't know whose bright idea it was to put the Arkansas - Tennessee border right down the middle of the Mississippi River, but one of the consequences of such is that you cross into Tennessee right in the middle of a very busy gazillion-lane bridge on Interstate 40. i'm chagrined to admit that for the first time on this trip i didn't stop and get a "Welcome to..." pic. if i had, it might have been my LAST one. ------------------------------------------- we arrived to a very cold, damp and dark Franklin, North Corolina (nope, no "Welcome to..." pic here either, but i made up for it - and the missed Tennesee photo op - soon enough) at 11 p.m., after what this old body felt like was a pretty impressive coupla days of burnin' up the tarmac. more to come. TOTAL MILEAGE FOR THE DAY: 762.4 (Message edited by jerry_haughton on October 27, 2004) | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
DAY ELEVEN, Monday 9/13/2004:  at Mike Breedlove's place in Franklin, North Carolina, waiting for Mike to get off work. Mikey and JB2, thru tragic circumstances, recently became brothers: when JB2's Dad was killed very near here in 2002, Mikey saw the ambulances and fire trucks racing past his house and new something dreadful had happened. i'll let JB2 tell the whole story if he chooses, but that night in Franklin Mike took several deliberate, concerted steps to track down JB2 - a man he'd never met, but a man who badly needed a friend - and offered him shelter from the storm. (Message edited by jerry_haughton on October 27, 2004) | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
DAY ELEVEN, cont. Mikey is a home-grown good ol' boy. one of the ways you can tell is by checking out his cool beer garden, like i did:  (Message edited by jerry_haughton on October 27, 2004) |
