Grief Lessons

A city connects its tragedy with September 11 and finds a way to help

On the morning of Sept. 11, as she drove to her job at the gift shop at the Oklahoma City National Memorial, Doris Jones learned from the radio that two planes had flown into the World Trade Center. As she walked into the memorial building, she paused at a picture of a curly-haired young woman that hangs on the fence outside. "I think there are a lot of new angels up there with you today," she said to the frozen image of her daughter Carrie Lenz, who died in the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building when she was 26 and...

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