Photos: Survivors remember Oklahoma City bombing ahead of 30th anniversary
The inscription above the entrance to the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum reads, "We come here to remember those who were killed, those who survived and those changed forever. May all who leave here know the impact of violence. May this memorial offer comfort, strength, peace, hope and serenity," in Oklahoma City on March 13, 2025. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
Austin Allen poses for a photo at the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum in Oklahoma City on March 12, 2025. Austin was 4 years old when his father died in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
Bombing survivor Dennis Purifoy stands during an interview at the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum in Oklahoma City on March 12.
The Oklahoma City National Memorial is seen April 9 — three decades after a truck bomb detonated outside a federal building there, killing 168 people.
This photo provided by Dennis Purifoy on Wednesday, April 9, 2025, shows Purifoy in 1995 at the Social Security office where he worked in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. (Dennis Purifoy via AP)
FILE - Charles "Chuck" Porter IV receives an award for his picture of a firefighter holding a baby in the aftermath of the Oklahoma bombing in London's Mansion House from the Lord Mayor of London Alderman John Chalstrey, right, on Jan. 26 1996, in London's Mansion House. (AP Photo/Dave Caulkin, File)
FILE - Nine-year-old P.J. Allen plays in his backyard in Oklahoma City on April 17, 2003. One of the youngest survivors of the Oklahoma City bombing, Allen says he wants more than anything to be able to swim and wrestle with his friends without worrying about the tracheotomy in his throat getting dislodged. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
FILE - Aren Almon, center, whose daughter Baylee became a national symbol in an iconic photo of a firefighter holding her lifeless body following the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City, is comforted by her father Tommy Almon and mother Debbie Almon, during a funeral service for Baylee at Arlington Memorial Park Cemetery in Oklahoma City, April 24, 1995. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)
FILE - Aren Almon greets President Bill Clinton after a prayer service for the victims of the deadly truck bomb attack in Oklahoma City on April 23, 1995. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)
Aren Almon poses for a portrait at the Oklahoma City National Memorial on Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Nick Oxford)
Aren Almon poses for a portrait next to the memorial chair for her daughter, Baylee Almon, at the Oklahoma City National Memorial on April 9 in Oklahoma City.
Aren Almon wears a button with a photo of her daughter Baylee Almon, who was killed in the Oklahoma City federal building bombing, at the Oklahoma City National Memorial on Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Nick Oxford)
Austin Allen touches a memorial for his deceased father, Ted Allen, in the Field of Empty Chairs section of the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum on March 12. Austin was 4 years old when his father died in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.
Austin Allen shows a photo of himself with his deceased father, Ted Allen, during an interview in Oklahoma City on March 12, 2025. Austin was 4 years old when his father died in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
A photo is displayed on the Memorial Fence at the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum on March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
PJ Allen, the youngest survivor of the Oklahoma City bombing, poses for a photo where he works at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City on March 13, 2025. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
PJ Allen, the youngest survivor of the Oklahoma City bombing, poses for a photo at the Tinker Air Force Base where he works in Oklahoma City on March 13.
Former Oklahoma City firefighter Chris Fields poses for a photo at the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum in Oklahoma City on March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
Former Oklahoma City firefighter Chris Fields looks at the Oklahoma City National Memorial in Oklahoma City on March 12.
A display at the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum shows items from the bombed Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
Thirty years after a truck bomb detonated outside a federal building in the nation's heartland, deep scars still remain from the deadliest homegrown attack on U.S. soil.