Did you know?

Did you know that today is the anniversary of a very infamous bombing?

At 12:01 pm, on September 16, a delivery vehicle stocked with more than one hundred pounds of high explosives and more than 500 pounds of cast iron (intended as shrapnel to inflict as much injury potential as possible across as wide an area as possible) stopped in front of the J.P. Morgan Bank at 23 Wall Street, New York City, and exploded.

The blast instantly killed 38 people that were walking along the busy sidewalks of New York's Financial District, and injured a staggering 400 others. Services and business inside the buildings surrounding the bank were interrupted, and thousands of people were without means of transportation because the subways and surface routes were closed. The bomb caused an estimated $22.9 million dollars in property damage (adjusted for inflation), and the scars of the bombing can still be seen today on the very steps of the bank building.

What is truly shocking about this story is that it occurred in 1920, and the delivery vehicle was a horse-drawn wagon. The "terrorists" who perpetrated the act were never caught, but suspicion has always lain with an anarchist group known as the Galleanists.

The terror attacks that we read about in the paper or see on TV are not new... we simply haven't ever grown to understand how close to home some of these attacks have actually been, even here in America.

Sobering thought, huh?