April 19 will mark the 20th anniversary of the 1995 bombing that destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City.

Killing 168 people, it is the most deadly case of domestic terrorism in American history, and was the most deadly terrorist attack until 9/11.

In July 2010, House Bill 2750 went into effect, requiring by law that Oklahoma schools teach about the bombing as part of their history and social studies core curriculum.

When former Gov. Brad Henry signed the bill into law on April 6, 2010, he said it is important for school children who had been born after the bombing to learn about one of the events that has shaped Oklahoma’s history more than most others.

Nearly 20 years have passed since the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City, and the memory of the event still lives on.

Computer Science Professor Al Heitkamper reflected on where he was at 9:02 a.m. April 19, 1995.

“I was in Choctaw teaching class and, all of a sudden, the building shook really bad … . Someone said something happened so we turned on the TV.

Marion Paden’s parents picked her up from Will Rogers World Airport and dropped her off at the front door of South Oklahoma City Junior College.

Paden was living in Texas at the time and working for Navarro College in Corsicana, Texas, as the Student Life Director, but decided it was time to apply for a job in Oklahoma.

Now, 32 years later, Paden is the Enrollment and Student Services vice president and longest serving Chief Student Affairs Officer in the state.

Every day, she looks out her office windows that were once the doors she walked in when she first applied at OCCC.

On April 7, Paden became the first woman from OCCC to be inducted into the Oklahoma Women’s Hall of Fame.

1,481.

That was the countable number of homeless people in the Oklahoma City area in 2014, according to homelessalliance.org.

Though the state’s homeless population has declined significantly since 2010, Oklahoma City’s homeless population had increased by 20 percent in 2013, according to a national report by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The Homeless Alliance, located on 1724 NW 4th St. in Oklahoma City, is an example of the resources available to the homeless. Communications Director Kinsey Crocker said the mission is to rally the community to end homelessness.

In November 2013, things took an unforeseeable turn for one current OCCC student — leaving her and her young son homeless.

“We had a life,” she said. “We had a path we were on. And then life happened.”

The student, who asked to remain anonymous and will be called Amy for this story, said life had never been exactly easy.

For years, Amy had been a full-time caretaker to her husband, a double amputee. She also was coping with her own injuries from a car wreck at the time.