Overwhelmed to know that the
child had survived this long, Hull and
his wife went out the next morning,
got a gift, and went to the hospital.
There in the corridor, Hull looked at
the Webbers. They all hugged, long
and with warmth. The Webbers then
invited Hull to Joseph’s bedside.
Says Dan: “It is nothing less than
a series of miracles that Don Hull
saw Joseph, that he picked him up,
that he felt hope, that he breathed
life into him and carried him out.
It is truly miraculous, the work of
God.” RDIn all, 168 people died in the Okla-
homa City bombing, which to this
day is the worst act of terrorism evercarried out on U.S. soil by an Ameri-
can citizen. Exactly five years after the
explosion, President Bill Clinton dedi-
cated the Oklahoma City National Me-
morial and Museum on the site of the
Murrah Building. Its centerpiece is the
Survivor Tree, an American elm that
stood 150 feet from the explosion yet
survived—and continues to grow to
this day. In the 25 years since the
bombing, seeds from the Survivor Tree
have been harvested and distributed to
the families of the survivors, visitors to
the memorial, and others. A Survivor
Tree offspring is also growing on the
lawn of the White House.This article originally appeared in
the May 1996 issue of Reader’s Digest.The
Oklahoma
City National
Memorial
and Museum
opened five
years after
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