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The debate about how to memorialize the victims of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City -- the only event in recent American history that comes remotely close to the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan -- went on for more than two years. Oklahoma City is a small town compared to New York, with a population of roughly five hundred thousand, and it is relatively homogeneous. There was no pressure to restore the site of the bombed building to commercial use, as there is at the World Trade Center, and yet the Oklahoma City National Memorial, as the park on the site is called, wasn't dedicated until the fifth ...