He said he appreciates his life even more than before, but he says his goal is to finish school so he can achieve his dream of flying Navy F-14s. I'm four days late on a research paper. Alex and Michelle Alejandro, both naval reserve hospital corpsmen, moved from Oceanside, Calif., to Oklahoma City earlier this year to enjoy the slower pace of life that the heartland offered. This is an ideal place. Michelle, an Oklahoma City native, agreed with her husband.
People are very nice in Oklahoma.
We never have to lock anything up. It's more of a family-type place. That peace and tranquility came to a shocking and devastating halt the morning of April 19 when a car bomb ripped away more than a third of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. Michelle, a naval reservist assigned to the Naval Hospital Pensacola detachment which drills at the Naval Reserve Readiness Center in Oklahoma City, was at her civilian job when the bomb exploded. The building shook and there was a deep rumble.