""When we were little, we played 'name the caliber of this bomb.' It sounds odd, but when you grow up in a war-torn zone, those are your games that you play as a kid.""
""It was just déjà vu. This is what I ran away from.""
On April 19, 1995, Imad Enchassi, a restaurant manager in Oklahoma City, heard a massive explosion while preparing to make a bank deposit. Initially fearing a robbery, he soon realized it was a car bomb. Having grown up in Lebanon amidst civil war, the explosion triggered painful memories of his childhood. Reports indicated multiple bombs, but only one had detonated outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Enchassi felt a sense of déjà vu, recalling the violence he had escaped.
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