Editing Oklahoma City bombing (section)

===Remembrance observance===
An observance is held each year to remember the victims of the bombing. An annual marathon draws thousands, and allows runners to sponsor a victim of the bombing.<ref name="Marathon">{{cite news |last1=Harper |first1=Justin |last2=Patterson |first2=Matt |last3=Kersey |first3=Jason |date=April 30, 2007 |title=2007 Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon: Notebook |url=http://newsok.com/article/3047173 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722022928/http://newsok.com/article/3047173 |archive-date=July 22, 2012 |work=[[The Oklahoman]] |format=Fee required}}</ref><ref name="MaraEmotion">{{cite news |last=Tramel |first=Berry |work=[[The Oklahoman]] |publisher=|title=Emotion makes Memorial different |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-18143023_ITM |url-access=registration |date=April 29, 2006 |access-date=March 28, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090429073027/http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-18143023_ITM |archive-date=April 29, 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref> For the tenth anniversary of the bombing, the city held 24 days of activities, including a week-long series of events known as the National Week of Hope from April 17 to 24, 2005.<ref name="24Days">{{cite news|last=Page |first=David |work=[[The Journal Record]] |title=OKC Memorial plans 24 days of events to mark bombing anniversary |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-18495930_ITM |url-access=registration |date=January 6, 2005 |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/5xGYpwfYH?url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126767994/okc-memorial-plans-24.html |archive-date=March 18, 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="AFGE">{{cite press release |publisher=[[American Federation of Government Employees|AFGE]] |date=April 6, 2005 |title=AFGE Commemorates Oklahoma City Bombing |url=http://www.afge.org/Index.cfm?Page=PressReleases&PressReleaseID=431 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110310211014/http://www.afge.org/Index.cfm?Page=PressReleases&PressReleaseID=431 |archive-date=March 10, 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> As in previous years, the tenth anniversary of the bombing observances began with a service at 9:02&nbsp;a.m., marking the moment the bomb went off, with the traditional 168 seconds of silence—one second for each person who was killed. The service also included the traditional reading of the names, read by children to symbolize the future of Oklahoma City.<ref name="PH">{{cite news |last=Kurt |first=Kelly |work=[[The Portsmouth Herald]] |title=Children's pain&nbsp;– Victims speak on bombing anniversary |url=http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20050420-NEWS-304209951 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716025941/http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20050420-NEWS-304209951 |archive-date=July 16, 2011 |url-status=dead |access-date=March 18, 2011 }}</ref>

Vice President [[Dick Cheney]], former President Clinton, Oklahoma Governor [[Brad Henry]], [[Frank Keating]], Governor of Oklahoma at the time of the bombing, and other political dignitaries attended the service and gave speeches in which they emphasized that "goodness overcame evil".<ref name="WhiteHouse">{{cite press release|publisher=[[White House]] |date=April 19, 2005 |title=Vice President's Remarks at Day of Remembrance Ceremony |url=https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2005/04/20050419.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111023134343/http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2005/04/20050419.html |archive-date=October 23, 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The relatives of the victims and the survivors of the blast also made note of it during the service at First United Methodist Church in Oklahoma City.<ref>{{cite news|date=April 19, 2005 |url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0504/19/lt.01.html |title=Oklahoma City Marks Bombing Anniversary |publisher=CNN |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629124209/http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0504/19/lt.01.html |archive-date=June 29, 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> President [[George W. Bush]] issued a written statement, part of which echoed his remarks on the execution of Timothy McVeigh in 2001: "For the survivors of the crime and for the families of the dead the pain goes on."<ref name="Prez10th">{{cite press release|publisher=[[White House]] |date=April 19, 2005 |title=President's Statement on Tenth Anniversary of Oklahoma City Bombing |url=https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2005/04/20050419-2.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111023124408/http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2005/04/20050419-2.html |archive-date=October 23, 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic in Oklahoma City|COVID-19 pandemic]], the memorial site was closed to the public and local television networks broadcast pre-recorded remembrances to mark the 25th anniversary.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/493500-oklahoma-city-bombing-25th-remembrance-moved-to-airwaves-amid-pandemic|title=Oklahoma City bombing 25th remembrance moved to airwaves amid pandemic|date=April 18, 2020 |first1=J. Edward|last1=Moreno|work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]}}</ref>