Life After Horrific Bombing

It is hard to believe but it has already been ten years since the Oklahoma City bombing, one of the biggest acts of domestic terrorism in the U.S.

Like all disasters, certain images stick in our minds as illustrations of their magnitude. And in Oklahoma City, a photograph of a fireman holding a child became one of those iconic images.

The photographer, Charles Porter, won a Pulitzer Prize for the photo, and the instant, caught in time, has changed the lives of both the firefighter (Chris Fields) and the baby's mother, Aren Almon-Kok.

It was 1-year old Baylee Almon who died in the blast, and she became a symbol for the American innocence lost in that act of domestic terrorism. Today, her mother, Aren, who has remarried and now has two children, has turned her grief into good, founding a group called Protecting People First Foundation (PPFF).

Since the foundation formed, the mission has stayed the same, to raise awareness about the deadly effects of flying glass caused by a terrorist attack or natural disaster. The foundation is also committed to working with public and private-sector partners to promote increased protection against flying glass in the workplace.

Fields, the firefighter who carried the child out of the wreckage, is now a major and an acting battalion chief with the fire department. He is also active in the PPFF.

April 18 would have been Baylee's 11th birthday.

Fields, who's now a battalion chief, spoke to The Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith Tuesday, along with former Oklahoma City Assistant Fire Chief Jon Hansen.

Fields calls Tuesday "a good day," when you consider how far the city, fire department and state of Oklahoma have come over the past ten years.

Then years later, Fields says what still stands out most to him and others who were there was what they saw when they first arrived.

Fields tells Smith the memories don't haunt him. The only thing that does is the thought of ever having to go through that kind of thing again.

Hansen insists the bombing made Oklahoma City stronger.

"The whole country is facing adversity now, though 9-11 and everything, and Oklahoma City was the first to go through something of this magnitude. I think we showed the rest of the world that we're not going to succumb to terrorism and you can bend us, but you're certainly not going to break us.

"Hopefully, we set a standard by which the rest of this great nation can respond, and reduce the impact of terrorism, not only in this country, but around the world."