American Shrapnel Part 5: The blast of a bomb nearly killed her. That wasn’t the worst part.

American Shrapnel Part 5: The blast of a bomb nearly killed her. That wasn’t the worst part.

Memrie Cresswell didn’t want to go out that night in Atlanta, but a friend’s birthday party took her to the Otherside Lounge. She stood up to tuck in her shirt and when a bomb exploded and a four-inch nail shot through her shoulder and out the front of her chest. Investigators told her she would almost certainly be dead had she not stood up the very moment she did. Luck, from the Speedo Boys in Olympic Park to bad timing at other bombings, again…