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 PUBLIC LAW 105-58—OCT. 9, 1997 111 STAT. 1261 Public Law 105-58 105th Congress An Act To establish the Oklahoma City National Memorial as a unit of the National Park System; to designate the Oklahoma City Memorial Trust, and for other purposes. Oct. 9, 1997 [S. 871] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Oklahoma City National SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. Memorial Act of 1997. This Act may be cited as the "Oklahoma City National Memo- le USC 450ss rial Act of 1997". note. SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES. Congress finds that— (1) few events in the past quarter-century have rocked Americans' perception of themselves euid their institutions, and brought togetiier the people of our Nation with greater intensity than the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklalioma City; (2) the residting deaths of 168 people, some of whom were children, immediately touched thousands of family members whose lives will forever bear scars of having those precious to them taken away so brutally; (3) suffering with such families are countless survivors, including children, who struggle not only with the suffering around them, but their own physical and emotional injiuies and with shaping a life beyond April 19; (4) such losses and struggles are personal and, since they resulted from so public an attack, they are also shared with a community, a Nation, and the world; (5) the story of the bombing does not stop with the attack itself or with the many losses it caused. The responses of Oklahoma's public servants and private citizens, and those from throughout the Nation, remain as a testament to the sense of unity, compassion, even heroism, that characterized the rescue and recovery following the bombing; (6) during the days immechately following the Oklahoma City bombing, Americans and people from around the world of all races, political philosophies, religions and walks of life responded with unprecedented solidarity and selflessness; and (7) given the national and international impact and reaction, the Federal character of the site of the bombing, and the significant percentage of the victims and survivors who were Federal employees, the Oklahoma City Memorial will be established, designed, managed and maintained to educate 16 USC 450ss.

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