open dyslexic mode

It’s just another morning for Mike, a federal office worker in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. He wakes up to the hum of his alarm clock, stretches, and gets ready for another busy day at work. After a quick breakfast, he heads out the door, locking up his house and driving the familiar route to downtown Oklahoma City. The streets are quieter than usual for this early in the day, but it’s nothing out of the ordinary.

He arrives at the Murrah building and heads to the elevator, not thinking twice as he punches in the button for the fourth floor. The office is already alive with the soft chatter of colleagues and the hum of computers. He settles into his desk, scanning through emails, when, without warning, the building erupts in an explosive shockwave that seems to rip the very walls apart. Mike is hurled across the room, his body crashing into furniture. The world goes black.

When he regains consciousness, the scene is unrecognizable. He’s disoriented, his body battered and bloodied. Smoke chokes the air, and the stench of destruction fills his nose. In the midst of the chaos, bodies and severed limbs litter the floor, some of them people he knows. But Mike is alive, struggling to breathe, confused, and desperate for any sense of reality. All around him, the devastation is palpable, the magnitude of the attack incomprehensible.

It’s a miracle he’s still here, but the nightmare has only just begun.

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