Boom. In a second everything changed, there are 3 now dead and over 140 injured from the bombings that took place on that Marathon Monday 4/15/13. The dead included 8-year old boy who was just trying to watch this usually joyous event with his family, he was not the only one though many children were hurt along with many adults, the responders were fighting victims lose of blood and limbs. Two bombs exploded damaging not only people or property but the sense of security of where many call home. After the two bombs were set off, the race was called off and in that time there were another two bombs found and disposed of before they had the chance to hurt anyone else. Immediately this was known to be an act of terrorism. The police and other officials worked tirelessly to help everyone, no matter how grim they looked they would continue to try to help and it is because of this that so many are still alive. They did not only pull together to help the injured but also to find the monsters responsible for the bombings. It was with this that they were able to shut down the whole city of Boston to find the ones responsible. Now all there is to do is wait, wait to see what punishment will be dished out to the one remaining bomber, 19 year old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. His older brother was the other bomber and has since been killed.
There are no real words to describe such a tragedy. None of the people hurt or killed were anything other than innocent civilians, there was no reason that this should have happened. These “men”, if you can even call them that, killed innocent people and ruined many others lives. Even after the victims wounds heal they will never be the same, they will have to carry this pain with them always. Everyone I knew was either there or had a loved one at the marathon and those moments of fear not knowing if you would ever get to see your loved ones again was a real enough pain that I don’t think anyone will soon forget. Whatever Dzhokhar gets it will not be a punishment severe enough.
With all the pain there is also a large sense of pride in the city I call home. The way everyone banded together to help each other was remarkable and with the skills that the rescuing of victims and hunting down Dzhokhar and his brother, we should feel proud. With this story I heard one of the most remarkable things of my life, people who were running the marathon would finish the race only to continue running to the nearest hospital to donate blood for those were less lucky them themselves. It was being reported that the blood banks were full enough to support all the victims and they heavy blood transfusions, this is a remarkable thing. Also people who were just watching the marathon and saw the bombing went up and tried to the best of their abilities to help those who were injured regardless of the fact that it might harm themselves. We Bostonians take pride in our city and take care of our own and when someone threatens or hurts us we will do everything to get them. After the responses to the bombings and seeing how strong Boston is I have never been prouder to call Boston my home. I mean how many other places can say that they will shut the whole city down if you try to mess with them?
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