On
April 19, 1995, one day after the closing of The Houston Post, at 9:02 am CST, there
was a terrorist bomb attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Office Building in
Oklahoma City. Sixteen Social Security employees were among the 168 people who
were killed. My wife was working for Social Security at the time.
I
feared this would be the first in a series of terrorist attacks on federal
offices across the entire nation. So, the next day, I begged my wife not to go
to work. Her reply: “Fuck it. You lost your job. One of us has to be making
money.” I couldn’t argue with that, so I stayed home and cooked dinner and
washed dishes.
Less than two weeks later, I covered for Variety
“Top Dog,” an unfortunately ill-timed Chuck Norris dramedy about a San Diego
cop, his love-hate relationship with a bomb-sniffing K-9 and, as I said in my review, “right-wing extremists who
plant bombs in public buildings as part of their campaign of terror.” The
movie wasn’t half-bad, and it certainly wasn’t Chuck’s fault that I got creeped
out, but…
BTW:
Note in the review the reference to April 20 as Hitler’s birthday. I wonder
what fresh hell might await us tomorrow?
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