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Friday, April 28,1995
University Press
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OKLAHOMA CITY — An
Oklahoma City fireman walks
near explosion-damaged cars on
« the north side of the Alfred
, Murrah Federal Building in
Oklahoma City after a car bomb
’ blast April 19. More than 90 peo-
k pie were killed and approximate-
ly 100 are missing in the explo-
sion that gouged a nine-story
hole in the federal office build-
*; ing. The bombing is being called
^,fjhe worst terrorist bombing in
0,JJ.S. history.
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OKLAHOMA CITY —
Nobody ordered Rebecca
Anderson to run for the door
when her house shook from the
force of the blast. No one
demanded this nurse leave her
new husband and four children
and rush to the heart of chaos,
where the injured needed her.
She just had to do it.
She raced downtown, where a
4,000-pound package of terror had
just tom apart a nine-story federal
building, burying hundreds of peo-
ple in a tower of rubble. Rebecca
wanted to be there. She wanted to
help.
She never got a chance. Shortly
after she arrived, she was struck
on the head by concrete from the
collapsing building. Within hours,
she was hospitalized. Within five
days, she was dead. She was 37
years old.
Then, she went to the rescue
once more: Her great heart was
implanted in a sick man’s chest.
On Tuesday, her husband, Fred,
her children — ages 10 to 17 —
and other family and friends bid
farewell to Rebecca Anderson in
her hometown of Fort Smith, Ark.
As they mourn, they also find
solace knowing she died doing a
good deed.
“Rarely do we go out of life
doing what we want,” Anderson
said, puffing on a cigarette, his
eyes red with tears and fatigue.
“She gave her life doing what she
wanted to do.”
“I wish,” he said, “I had half the
compassion and heart that she
had.”
Rebecca was just beginning a
new life when tragedy struck.
Divorced, she started nursing
school about three years ago and
then went to work at the
Brookwood Nursing Center.
Her personal life was flourish-
ing, too, thanks, to a husky, blue-
eyed truck driver she’d met
through a mutual friend. Their
first date was Oct. 2, 1993 —
Rebecca’s 36th birthday. He had
scouted out a restaurant that
served her favorite dish, Alaskan
king crab. The next day he bought
her gladioli. Nine months later,
they stood hand in hand at the
church altar.
Both Andersons had work off
last Wednesday and were watch-
ing television when their homes
shook. Immediately, Rebecca
grabbed some clothes and told her
husband they needed to go help.
Though they’d been wed less
than nine months, Anderson knew
his wife was a determined woman.
He would take her to the blast
sight, and then go off, looking to
help where he could.
“If I told her no, it wouldn’t
have made a difference,” he said
wistfully. “Nobody could change
her mind. If she told me it was
important, it WAS important.” ;
Before leaving, she called a
friend and co-worker, Ava Muzny.
“I told her to be careful and call
me that night,” Muzny recalled.
Nearly 200 miles away, in Fort
Smith, her youngest sister, Lori
Hughen, watched the horror on
television. She kept an eye out for
Rebecca.
“I thought I’d see her there
putting on Band-Aids,” she said,
smiling through tears as she hvld-
dled with Rebecca’s 15-year-eld
daughter, Hilary.
“It was only after Rebecca’s
death that Anderson pieced
together what happened: After
public appeals — a photo of his
wife fainting appeared in a local
newspaper — witnesses told him
Rebecca was hit by a large slabrjf
concrete while helping rescUeJs
near the building.
She sat down, someone went4o
get help, then she got up again and
began walking. She went a short
distance, her eyes rolled into Jbusr
head; then she fainted, her head
smacking against the pavement.
When Anderson arrived at the
hospital, he said, a doctor showed
him X-rays, indicating a severe
blow to the back of her head and
small hemorrhages. When he
entered his wife’s room, she recog-
nized him. “I said, baby, ‘What
happened?”’ he recalled. “She
said, ‘I don’t remember.’ ”
That night, she lost conscious-
ness.
Five days later, she was gone.
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