Oklahoma City bombing

===Remembrance observance===
An observance is held each year to remember the victims of the bombing. An annual marathon draws thousands, and allows runners to sponsor a victim of the bombing.<ref name="Marathon">{{cite news|last=Harper |first=Justin |author2=Matt Patterson |author3=Jason Kersey |work=[[The Oklahoman]] |title=2007 Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon: Notebook |url=http://newsok.com/article/3047173 |date=April 30, 2007 |format=Fee required |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722022928/http://newsok.com/article/3047173 |archive-date=July 22, 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="MaraEmotion">{{cite news |last=Tramel |first=Berry |work=[[The Oklahoman]] |publisher=|title=Emotion makes Memorial different |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-18143023_ITM |url-access=registration |date=April 29, 2006 |access-date=March 28, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090429073027/http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-18143023_ITM |archive-date=April 29, 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref> For the tenth anniversary of the bombing, the city held 24&nbsp;days of activities, including a week-long series of events known as the National Week of Hope from April 17 to 24, 2005.<ref name="24Days">{{cite news|last=Page |first=David |work=[[The Journal Record]] |title=OKC Memorial plans 24 days of events to mark bombing anniversary |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-18495930_ITM |url-access=registration |date=January 6, 2005 |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/5xGYpwfYH?url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126767994/okc-memorial-plans-24.html |archive-date=March 18, 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="AFGE">{{cite press release |publisher=[[American Federation of Government Employees|AFGE]] |date=April 6, 2005 |title=AFGE Commemorates Oklahoma City Bombing |url=http://www.afge.org/Index.cfm?Page=PressReleases&PressReleaseID=431 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110310211014/http://www.afge.org/Index.cfm?Page=PressReleases&PressReleaseID=431 |archive-date=March 10, 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> As in previous years, the tenth anniversary of the bombing observances began with a service at 9:02&nbsp;a.m., marking the moment the bomb went off, with the traditional 168&nbsp;seconds of silence&nbsp;– one&nbsp;second for each person who was killed as a result of the blast. The service also included the traditional reading of the names, read by children to symbolize the future of Oklahoma City.<ref name="PH">{{cite news|last=Kurt |first=Kelly |work=[[The Portsmouth Herald]] |title=Children's pain&nbsp;– Victims speak on bombing anniversary |url=http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20050420-NEWS-304209951 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716025941/http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20050420-NEWS-304209951 |archive-date=July 16, 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Then-Vice President [[Dick Cheney]], former President Clinton, Oklahoma Governor [[Brad Henry]], [[Frank Keating]], Governor of Oklahoma at the time of the bombing, and other political dignitaries attended the service and gave speeches in which they emphasized that "goodness overcame evil".<ref name="WhiteHouse">{{cite press release|publisher=[[White House]] |date=April 19, 2005 |title=Vice President's Remarks at Day of Remembrance Ceremony |url=https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2005/04/20050419.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111023134343/http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2005/04/20050419.html |archive-date=October 23, 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The relatives of the victims and the survivors of the blast also made note of it during the service at First United Methodist Church in Oklahoma City.<ref>{{cite news|date=April 19, 2005 |url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0504/19/lt.01.html |title=Oklahoma City Marks Bombing Anniversary |publisher=CNN |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629124209/http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0504/19/lt.01.html |archive-date=June 29, 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

President [[George W. Bush]] made note of the anniversary in a written statement, part of which echoed his remarks on the execution of Timothy McVeigh in 2001: "For the survivors of the crime and for the families of the dead the pain goes on."<ref name="Prez10th">{{cite press release|publisher=[[White House]] |date=April 19, 2005 |title=President's Statement on Tenth Anniversary of Oklahoma City Bombing |url=https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2005/04/20050419-2.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111023124408/http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2005/04/20050419-2.html |archive-date=October 23, 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Bush was invited but did not attend the service because he was en route to [[Springfield, Illinois]], to dedicate the [[Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum]]. Cheney attended the service in his place.<ref name="WhiteHouse"/>

Due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic in Oklahoma City|COVID-19 pandemic]], the memorial site was closed to the public on April 19, 2020, and local television networks broadcast pre-recorded remembrances to mark the 25th anniversary.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/493500-oklahoma-city-bombing-25th-remembrance-moved-to-airwaves-amid-pandemic|title=Oklahoma City bombing 25th remembrance moved to airwaves amid pandemic|date=April 18, 2020 |first1=J. Edward|last1=Moreno|work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]}}</ref>