In Oklahoma, The Oklahoman and local station KWTV News 9 have stories about a Vietnamese-American who was the first among the six toddlers who survived the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City 13 years ago to graduate high school.
Christopher Nguyen, right, is graduating from high school. Photo: News 9
Little Christopher Nguyen(pictured) was 4 1/2 at the time of the bombing. He had some scars but they had healed. There were five other kids from the same America’s Kids day care center in the building who survived the blast, all younger than Christopher.
Living through such a horrendous event didn’t make Christopher bitter. Instead, it made him thankful. “When I was in the hospital there were cards from everywhere, and my family gave me just everything I could possibly ask for as a child,” the paper quoted Christopher as saying.
Although Christopher himself doesn’t remember much from that day, his parents do.
“We always think about the other children that couldn’t have made it and we cannot imagine how they (their parents) feel,” his mother Phuong Nguyen said told local KWTV News 9.
Christopher plans to go to the University of Oklahoma and study to become a consultant.
