On December 25, 2025, Nashville will mark five years since the Christmas Day bombing that shattered the quiet of downtown and changed the city forever. Early that morning in 2020, an RV parked along Second Avenue began broadcasting a recorded warning telling people to evacuate. Minutes later, the vehicle exploded, damaging dozens of buildings, injuring several people, and cutting power and communications across large parts of Middle Tennessee. Miraculously, no one was killed. Among the first res