But it was the government's witnesses who clearly had the greatest effect on jurors who wept for three days straight as relatives of the victims spoke of their loss in harrowing detail. There is no one coming home, nobody in the driveway. I lost everything. Mothers choked with emotion as they tried to convey what it has been like losing one of the 15 children who perished in the building's day-care center that day. For months after the bombing, I didn't care whether I lived or died. . . .
Defense lawyers let victim testimony go unchallenged, which they later explained to jurors.
They were speaking from the reality that has crowded over them, has changed their lives, has broken their hearts, has dashed their dreams, and has left them struggling to get up and face each day. Staff writer William Claiborne contributed to this report. News Jobs AP Shopping Archives Entertain.