Patriot’s Day: A Reminder of Our Past

We have a special treat for our readers today from a guest. April 19th is Patriot’s Day, and the celebration of the ‘Shot Heard Around the World’. It was the beginning of the Revolutionary War with the battles of Lexington and Concord, and the Battle of Menotomy on April 19, 1775.

This day also marks the anniversary of two sad stories from our recent past. In 1993 the Waco Siege ended this day with a total of 82 people murdered. The last 76 were killed on April 19th, when federal agents made their move. Janet Reno the Attorney General argued the children inside the compound were suffering, so they needed to take action. That botched action resulted in the building being set on fire, which killed most of the children she wanted to save.

Two years later the OKC Bombing shook the country to it’s core, taking the lives of 169 innocent people (we count the mysterious leg found as a victim). At the time it was the biggest terrorist attack on American soil. It forever changed things in this country. The attack in the heartland left Americans feeling unsafe, with many questioning the official story.

A READER SUBMITTED STORY

There is a local resident, Justin Cottrell, was a firefighter in Oklahoma City at the time of the bombing. We reached out to see if he’d tell his story. Below is the email, complete with pics provided by him, and a few we found on the interwebs. We’ve inserted a few links throughout his story, to help the reader with more information. Some of these are to Wikipedia, but are a good starting point for those unfamiliar with the stories told.

We ask you please set aside all political stances and just listen to what he has to say. Feel free to draw your conclusions after. But please, regardless of what you believe, don’t belittle him or anyone else that worked this horrible tragedy.

One last tidbit. We highly suggest all readers watch the film A Noble Lie. It’s a phenomenally well done film that analyzes the OKC Bombing from an investigative standpoint.

Chester, with a heavy heart

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THE EMAIL

Dear Chester,

Thank you reaching out to me about this subject. I always welcome the opportunity to share my story on the Oklahoma City Bombing. I’ve also attached a document I wrote in 2010 on the subject that explains what I saw at the recovery effort. CLICK HERE TO READ I’ll try to not repeat any of that. I’ll do my best to answer each question.

This April 19th will be the 25th anniversary of the Bombing. Honestly I can’t believe it’s been that long. It seems like yesterday I was staring at the destruction and chaos, wondering what had happened. In my mind I can still hear the explosions, smell the scene, and see that can’t be unseen from this event. As with every April 19th, my day will start with praying for the victims families. Some of whom I knew from church or from my daily travels. Then I pray the truth of what really happened will be made known.

On a personal note I also thank God for protecting me. The Social Security Administration was in the Murrah Building. My social security card had been lost to the washing machine and I needed a replacement. My District Fire Chief had told me on my previous shift the city didn’t have a copy, and to get one before my next shift. On the 19th I was on the last day of my 4 day off work cycle. I had contemplated going when their office opened to get a new card, but decided to finish a yard work and tree-trimming project I had going. Besides I needed a few new Fire uniform shirts, and the shop that sold these wasn’t far from the Murrah Building. Every year I thank God for making me interested in yard work that day.

1. Tell us about your time on the OKC Fire Department

I was born in Oklahoma City at a hospital just a few blocks from the Murrah Building. Then I grew up in a suburb east of downtown OKC. Iwas hired onto the fire department October 7, 1994. The year before I was close to being hired on, but had a setback with a motocross accident. At the time of the Bombing I was on my second three month rotation and was assigned to Rescue Squad 16 at Station 16. It was the busiest fire truck in Oklahoma, and was on the top 50 busiest in America. Most shifts we had around 5-7 calls per day, with some days many more. We responded to fires and car wrecks in all fire districts surrounding ours. The squad also responded to medical calls within our own district. Essentially the squad was just a big tool truck that also had rescue items and various medical supplies. I left the department in 2000 to enter into ministry full time.

2. What I think brought down the building?

What I do know, is the Ryder Truck didn’t do all the damage. I base this off scientific studies the government did, as well as independent researchers. Plus what I saw with my eyes on site. Do I think the truck bomb went off? Yes I do. But there had to have been internal explosions to do the internal damage. I cover some of this in the attached document. Personally I agree with some experts that the big boom I first heard was the Ryder truck bomb. The smaller two following explosions, weren’t as crisp, but more rumbling like quick thunder in the distance. Those I’m told are more concurrent with a chain of C-4 type explosions.

A few years after the Bombing I was stationed at station 13, just south of Tinker AFB and the GM plant. The OKC Police bomb detonation site was near our station. Every time the bomb squad needed to practice or explode a bomb they’d found, our station was called to watch in the event of an emergency. Once I spoke with one of the bomb squad members, and he told me an ANFO bomb such as the Ryder truck had, couldn’t so the damage we saw. He explained the blast wasn’t directional, but went everywhere at once. This means the energy went in all directions, instead of focusing on one target. He was open that he felt the columns in the building had planted charges on them.

3. Who do I think did it?

I think Timothy McVeigh believed he did it, but psychological manipulation is an age old trick. Who ultimately did the majority of the damage is yet to be determined. Some want to just pin it on the government in general, like a military operation. But that would have too many loose ends, and the truth would have got out if that was the story. Could it have been a small faction of the US government? Yes that would be easier to accept. Another idea I’ve seen that fits well is there was a team involved with Tim McVeigh that were known mercenaries and federal informants. Some with known mercenary ties were reported being seen at Elohim City in Eastern OK with McVeigh. There is good evidence these guys were fed information by the CIA. To date this is the most plausible theory.

4. Why do think it happened?

Oh boy this is almost a loaded question, LOL. There are several decent theories that do seem to hold water. I’ll even accept that it was a combination possibly a few. For me I try to use logic to sort through them. One thing that always struck me as odd with the official story, was why Oklahoma City? OKC doesn’t stand out as being a good target. We are told McVeigh was mad about the Waco siege. If so, why not go to one of the bigger Federal buildings in Texas? It doesn’t compute to me, but neither does most of the ‘official story’.

What does seem to fit are two leading theories that actually work well together. First Slick Willie was president at the time. The investigative reports of his involvement in the Mena, AR CIA fiasco were housed at the Murrah Building. Some have suggested he wanted that evidence gone. To me a bigger reason is the fact that after Ruby Ridge in 1992, militia groups had grown steadily every year. In the beginning of 1995 they were at their all time highest in American history. There were so many, some in the government felt there might be an uprising and hostile take over. Therefore it is very plausible that McVeigh and cohorts were set-up to paint militia groups in a bad light. It is a known fact that after the Bombing, militia groups were waning. By 1996 militia groups were a fraction of what they had been.

5. What can we learn from this?

For me, this was my entry into questioning the main stream media circus, and government official stories. I’m sure some will read this and call me a conspiracy nut. I remind them world history is full of conspiracies. Hillary claiming the Ruskies hacked an election is one example. Roman guards being bribed to claim they saw Jesus’ disciples steal his body is another. Yes what I claim is labeled a conspiracy, because it goes against the narrative presented by the officials. But all I ask for is the truth. There are so many unanswered big questions that even numerous elected officials in Oklahoma doubt the official story.

My firm belief is if the full truth ever comes out about the OKC Bombing, that it will cause many to question other important US events.  The CIA has even been quoted as saying if all of their documents on this sad story are released, it might cause a civil war. That to me in itself is telling.

6. Are there other proofs this was a setup?

There are numerous, the biggest are the mysterious deaths after the bombing. It seems anytime someone got too close to disrupting the official story, they ended up dead. One was a Terrance Yeakey, an OKC police officer who was the first officer on the scene. He doubted the official story, and was doing a private investigation based off what he saw. He later committed ‘suicide’ in a  field, by slicing his wrists numerous times, then deeply slitting his throat twice. They claim he crawled almost a mile from his car and shot himself in the head. Somehow he gave himself ligature marks around his neck and hands, and bruised his body in unusual places. No weapon was recovered, nor were any spent shells. No blood trail was found in the field. Around his car someone had turned over all the soil with a spade shovel. What a wild suicide.

There are other deaths just as mysterious. I once heard there were over 30 accidental or suicide deaths after the bombing. There was even a prisoner in the OKC Federal Transfer Station that fit the description of John Doe 2. He died of ‘suicide’ by torturing and beating himself to death. The official story was he hanged himself. But when the family received the body, the noticed signs on his possible torture. The official story was modified, claiming he failed in his first suicide attempt of hanging. He fell, bruising and cutting himself all over his body. Then he was successful on his second attempt at suicide by hanging. Kinda sounds like the Epstein suicide. It should be noted some of the bruises were on the bottom of his feet, and in the kidney region. There were also needle entry wounds under his finger nails. These are classic torture methods.

Closing

I kept quiet for years after the Bombing. I didn’t want to end up the victim of a ‘suicide’. But after a few years the mysterious deaths stopped, and slowly others began to step forward. After 9/11, people weren’t afraid to voice what they saw at OKC any longer. Whoever perpetrated the Bombing was busy with other things, so it appears the fear of telling the truth is gone. That’s why I’m not afraid to have my story published.

One encouraging thing, is many in Oklahoma are speaking up wanting answers. Every April OKC media outlets will interview people that make the case that the official story is lacking. There are past and present politicians that want a new investigation. Then there are the victim’s families, who felt mislead as well. Some were told various ever evolving stories before the ‘official story’ came out. A few were even haggled by federal agents for a few years, for refusing to keep quiet.  People just want to know the truth.

My hope is this helps people understand we were lied to in part or full about the OKC Bombing. My earnest prayer is truth will come out, and the world will know it. No one wants to live in fear their government has lied to them.

Thanks again for asking these questions. Please let me know if you have any others, I’m happy to answer.

Justin Cottrell

ATTACHED DOCUMENT