"ON A WEDNESDAY morning a little more than 30 years ago, before his mother left for work in downtown Oklahoma City, a boy named Kyle Genzer told her he loved her. It was a sunny, cloudless day. "Like today," he says. He tilts his head and looks toward the sky. She was in a hurry. He thought he'd see her later that day, after school. He wishes he'd hugged her, he says."
"At 9:02 a.m., as he sat in his eighth-grade class at Wellston Middle School, about 40 miles east of Oklahoma City, Genzer felt the school shake and the windows rattle. "We thought it was thunder," he says. Minutes later, his uncle, a teacher there, knocked on the classroom door and told him there had been an explosion at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, where his mother worked as a loan officer for the Federal Employees Credit Union."
Kyle Genzer told his mother he loved her the morning she left for work before the Oklahoma City bombing. He was in eighth grade at Wellston Middle School when the school shook and he later learned there had been an explosion at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. His mother, Jamie Genzer, a 32-year-old loan officer and single mother who sang in a Sweet Adelines quartet, was killed along with 167 others. At 14 he helped pick out her casket and learned to endure the quiet. At 44 he stands at the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum facing the Field of Empty Chairs.
Read at ESPN.com
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