On the terrorist attack’s 30th anniversary, Susan Walton praises God for showing ‘the goodness of people.’
By Bobby Ross Jr. | The Christian Chronicle
OKLAHOMA CITY — Thirty years have not healed all of Susan Walton’s wounds.
Still, the Oklahoma City bombing survivor’s Christian faith remains strong.
“God brought a lot of good,” Walton, 74, said of the aftermath of the April 19, 1995, attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building — which claimed 168 lives and wounded hundreds of others.
At the three-decade anniversary, the longtime North MacArthur Church of Christ member still walks with a cane.
“And still today, getting up out of a chair is not easy,” she said in an interview at the church.
Buried under rubble and critically hurt when the bomb exploded that blue-sky Wednesday, Walton “was the most severely injured of those who survived,” according to Oklahoma City’s KFOR-TV.
All these years later, Walton enumerates her injuries without notes.
“A basilar skull fracture. Nerve damage behind both eyes. A broken nose. Lost six teeth. My jaw was fractured in six places. Ruptured spleen. And then my legs were messed up,” she told The Christian Chronicle.
Her initial recovery process took five years and required 26 surgeries. Doctors fused her left ankle to her foot, preventing any movement. But even that she counts as a blessing.
This story appears in the May print edition of The Christian Chronicle.
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