November 22, 1995
Web posted at: 2:40 p.m. EST
From Special Assignment Correspondent Kathy Slobogan
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma (CNN) -- The bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building left a victim born three months after the April 19 explosion. Kylie Williams will never meet her father, but she will learn about him. Her widowed mother, Nicole, is seeing to that.
Scott Williams, a softball player with a soft heart, fell in love with Nicole the moment he saw her at a country and western dance hall. The next day he told his parents he met the woman he was going to marry. A year into their marriage, Nicole was six months pregnant when she called Scott at work and asked him to pick up a comforter for the baby's room. But first, he had to make a food delivery to the daycare center at the federal building. Their last words to each other, over the phone, were "I love you." (72K AIFF sound or 72K WAV sound)
Nicole knew her husband was dead, but it took two days for official notification. She dreaded hearing the telephone ring (128K AIFF sound or 128K WAV sound). Wiping away tears, Nicole told CNN she wants to keep her husband's memory alive for their daughter, now 4 months old. "I don't want her to wonder who he was (168K AIFF sound or 168K WAV sound). He'll never hold her or hear her say 'Daddy.'" (168K AIFF sound or 168K WAV sound)
The house where Scott Williams lived until his death at age 24 is now a shrine in his honor. Baseball uniforms on the wall. Keepsakes in Kylie's crib. A reminder in almost every room. And Scott's gravestone has all three of their names.
For people in Oklahoma City not directly touched by the bombing, the tragedy is beginning to recede from memory. "I try not to think about it," says one man. "The atmosphere is still sad," says a woman, "but people are getting things back together." But for the living victims left behind by the nation's worst terrorist attack, the bombing remains unforgettable and unforgivable.
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