Families Honor OKC Murrah Building Bombing Victims

Families gathered Wednesday to honor their loved ones at the 2023 remembrance ceremony of the Murrah Building bombing in Oklahoma City.

Doris Jones read off her daughters and grandsons' names.

"It seems so real when you read it to someone else," said Jones, mother of Carrie Ann Lenz and grandmother of Michael James Lenz III. "We have to remember."

This year's remembrance ceremony was filled with speakers from Governor Kevin Stitt, Mayor David Holt, and the keynote speaker Chief Justice Steven Taylor.

The ceremony closed with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic's composition to honor those impacted.

The OKC National Memorial and Museum is known around the world for helping shape other tributes to world tragedies.

This year Oklahoma City welcomed Tammie Sinclair, an archivist, out of a library in Uvalde, Texas.

"In our archives, we have newspapers, we have photos, we have artwork," said Sinclair.

Tammie said she's thankful that she could connect to those here in the city and hopes to take what she learned back to Uvalde.

"We are trying to make the collection meaningful for the families. So how can we take this community experience and bring it back to our community," said Sinclair. 

Tammie said she is taking one of the tree seedlings and hopes to plant it outside the archives.