Waco, Texas ? The Branch Davidian compound is barely visible here now on this piece of central Texas prairie, where tall green grasses and blooming wildflowers cover traces of the building that erupted in a deadly inferno 10 years ago.

A persistent wind blew Saturday, just as it did on April 19, 1993, when a fire and explosion consumed the Davidians and their compound after federal agents stormed the grounds at Mount Carmel, bringing a controversial conclusion to a 51-day standoff with sect leader David Koresh and his followers.

A new church has been built where the compound once stood and nearly 100 Branch Davidian supporters and survivors gathered inside Saturday to remember the standoff and to repeat criticism of the government for the bungled attempt to arrest Koresh, which started it. The storming of the compound left at least 80 people dead, including more than a dozen children.

“I don’t think it should be forgotten,” said Clive Doyle, 62, one of the last remaining Branch Davidians who escaped death that day and who lives in a trailer on the grounds. The standoff, he insists, should forever remind Americans about the dangers of a faceless government.

Although a Justice Department review concluded that Branch Davidians started the fire and shot one another in a mass suicide, the family members of those who died and several militia groups skeptical of the government still blame the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms for spraying tear gas and charging the building with military fighting vehicles.

“The world must never forget what happened here,” said Ramsey Clark, a former U.S. attorney general who represents the surviving Davidians as they try to sue the government. “The government attacked defenseless children and women and men as old as I am today, 75.”