OKC +20yrs: Photograph Changed His Life

…“It was smoky. Hard to breath. And you knew you had no choice. And water from busted pipes was coming down. I would actually take a shower to get the soot and concrete dust off me and clean my glasses so I could go back in and do it again,” Avera remembered.

Then, Avera heard something.

“All of a sudden, I hear this baby crying. So we turn around. And I went over to where I hear it and we started digging around the rock. And we found two babies…."

In those first frantic minutes after the bombing, Avera was too busy to notice the photographer.

He never knew the photo was being transmitted around the world. …