Rub your hands on any office or apartment wall near ground zero, and there's gouges that range from four feet to four inches. Kevin Boll says the wounds of June 25 will not easily be repaired. On that summer night a giant truck bomb exploded outside the north perimeter of the military housing compound, reducing an eight-story residence building to rubble and shattering virtually every window in the compound. Nineteen airmen died and more than 400 were injured. Today, what's left of the building still stands.
People look at it.
Pray at it. Cry at it. Had I been in my office, I would have been killed. Boll explained how he would work at his computer near an office window that overlooked the row of buildings where the bomb went off. When he returned to his office, the window was blown out and the four walls sliced by shards of glass.