The Terror Among Us

The Oklahoma Memorial to the 168 people who died there was very beautiful and quite moving. Bronze chairs atop a glass square with each name of the victims inscribed lit up at night on a grassy area where a building used to be. Little chairs represented the children who died there.
We also took a little city tour of Austin. Very nice city, four star rated by the LaRocca’s. Good public transportation, music, food, friendly people, nice parks and activities, low cost housing and low crime rates. Never mind that it is situated on a fault line. One that is permanently inactive, our guide said. Yeah, right.
They have also had their share of tragedy with a sniper that took out 45 people in 1999. We watched on CNN the life sentences of Mohammed and Malvo who terrorized the Washington Virginia area. These acts are a constant reminder that terrorism doesn’t come from overseas- that’s it’s been here and among us for centuries.
Houston is a large sprawling city. Everyone here is nice and have that all American look about them. No tattoos, piercings, or out of the ordinary Macy’s store clothes. We especially like the Kemah Boardwalk and Seabrook – little beach towns near Galveston. They had clean, fun activities for everyone and cute little summer houses along the beachfront.
Galveston was a bust- more like a very poor town with a little tacky tourist area and big ugly oil platforms that dot its coastline.
Off for more sites of death and destruction…………my hometown, New Orleans.