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The Oklahoma City bombing was 30 years ago. Some survivors worry America didn’t learn the lesson

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A 30-year anniversary remembrance ceremony is scheduled for April 19 on the grounds of the Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum .

The Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995 , killed 168 people in the deadliest homegrown attack on U.S. soil.

Some survivors of the bombing still fear anti-government rhetoric in modern-day politics could lead to violence.

Dennis Purifoy , now 73 and retired, lost 16 co-workers in the bombing.

He said the bombing and McVeigh 's anti-government motives were a reality check for an innocent nation.

“I still think that our country is naive, as the way I was before the bombing, naive about the numbers of people in our country who hold far right-wing views,” he said.

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