On Monday April 15th two bombs went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The Boston Marathon is a 26 mile course around Boston with the finish line by the Boston public library. The bombs were planted by Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev. It took four days to catch the suspects resulting in the death of Tamerlan and the hospitalization of Dzhokhar.
The casualties of the Boston marathon included death and loss of limbs. Hundreds of people are in the hospital recovering from the wounds inflicted by the bomb. Luckily Boston has a lot of hospitals that could treat the massive amounts of victims. One thing people did to try and help the victims was after finishing the marathon the participants continued to run to the nearest hospital to donate blood. The wounds inflicted by the bombing were both physical and emotional.
The emotional toll of Boston being attacked was huge. People felt a range of emotions from unsafe to patriotic. The fear of another attack and the suspect still being out there caused people to stay inside and hope that another attack wouldn’t come. The fact that the suspect was taken in to custody 4 days after the attack caused the feeling of pride that we are “Boston Strong” and can come back from anything.
The two bombers took away the security we all felt but they didn’t succeed in taking away our pride in our city. This is something Boston can and will come back from and is already in the process of doing so. The victims of the Boston marathon will recover and are receiving support from people across the nation. The tragedy that took place on Monday April 15th and in my opinion strengthened the city in a time when others would have been weekend.
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