. >> ifill: car kari watkins, you were with president clinton in the oklahoma city tragedy. how did this speech ring for you tonight? >> i think president obama spoke on three things we tried to teach as a memorial effort: remembrance, respect and responsibility. while you want to remember what's happened and honor that, you still want to encourage people to respect each other and to watch what we say and that we veech a sense of responsibility and that sense of community and heroism came out when he talks about responsibility. >> ifill: when we hear about these speeches we have high hopes for them. we hope they'll make us feel better and that there will be closure. was this speech designed to do any of those things and did it accomplish any of them? >> i think it was very effective and what i most resonated with was his saying that our nature is to want to make sense out of chaos and in this case we can't make sense out of it and i think he helped us on our way to healing in acknowledging this. >> ifill: the other thing he talked about was the pettiness that drifts away wit

. >> ifill: car kari watkins, you were with president clinton in the oklahoma city tragedy. how did this speech ring for you tonight? >> i think president obama spoke on three things we tried to teach as a memorial effort: remembrance, respect and responsibility. while you want to remember what's happened and honor that, you still want to encourage people to respect each other and to watch what we say and that we veech a sense of responsibility and that sense of community and heroism came out when he talks about responsibility. >> ifill: when we hear about these speeches we have high hopes for them. we hope they'll make us feel better and that there will be closure. was this speech designed to do any of those things and did it accomplish any of them? >> i think it was very effective and what i most resonated with was his saying that our nature is to want to make sense out of chaos and in this case we can't make sense out of it and i think he helped us on our way to healing in acknowledging this. >> ifill: the other thing he talked about was the pettiness that drifts away wit

certainly it happens to me. >> ifill: back to you kari watkins. when you talk to people now, all these years after oklahoma city, you run a memorial there in oklahoma city. do people still come there looking for that kind of grief sharing all these years later or is this something that people have said oh, this is history now. >> well, it is history, it's 16 years past. but they're also coming to look for answers and they're trying to find a depth of hope and the good that can come out of it. i mean, in the very worst of circumstances we have faith that something good will come. we've heard the acts of heroism, from the people in the parking lot to the other folks who've helped and that's what people have come to look for. they've come to try to find the good and those are important lessons we've learned. we try to share those to the memorial museum. we have lesson plans available to teachers and we'll reach out to the folks of arizona when enough time has passed and offer what lessons we've learned and try to share those. if we can keep them goin