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Thirty years after the deadliest homegrown attack in U.S. history, former President Bill Clinton has returned to Oklahoma City for a remembrance ceremony. Clinton was president on April 19, 1995, when a truck bomb exploded, destroying a nine-story federal building in the city's downtown. He delivered the keynote address Saturday at a remembrance ceremony near the Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum. Clinton was widely praised for how he helped the city grapple with its grief in the wake of the bombing, which killed 168 people, including 19 children. He says it was a day in his presidency that he will never forget. Read moreFormer President Bill Clinton returns to Oklahoma City 30 years after the bombing