Long Mile Home: Boston Under Attack, the City's Courageous Recovery, and the Epic Hunt for Justice (39 page)
Authors: Scott Helman,Jenna Russell
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After arriving in the United States as an elementary school student, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev seemed to have assimilated successfully into American society. His life, however, was also on a downward spiral.
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Bill Iffrig, a seventy-eight-year-old marathoner from Lake Stevens, Washington, was running down the left side of the course when the first explosion threw him to the ground. With police officers scrambling all around him, Iffrig thought,
This might be it
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This will be the end of me.
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Shrapnel from the first blast ruptured the femoral artery of Sydney Corcoran, a seventeen-year-old from Lowell, north of Boston, whose mother, Celeste, lost both legs. Two bystanders, Zach Mione (right) and Matt Smith, helped save Sydney’s life by fashioning a tourniquet.
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In a matter of seconds, the celebratory holiday atmosphere of Boylston Street transformed into a chaotic, bloodstained crime scene, with first responders and volunteers working urgently to save lives.
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Police and race officials stopped the marathon on Commonwealth Avenue, less than a mile before the finish line. Thousands of confused, cold, and exhausted runners remained on the course.
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An emergency responder and volunteers, including Carlos Arredondo, in the cowboy hat, raced Jeff Bauman to an ambulance after the explosion outside Marathon Sports ravaged his lower body. Bauman lost both legs in the bombing.
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Many runners cherished competing in the Boston Marathon above all other races. They were devastated to learn of the tragedy unfolding ahead.
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Police and medical personnel waited outside the Boston Medical Center emergency room on April 15, 2013, for more bombing casualties to arrive. The city’s hospitals were inundated with patients in the hours after the explosions.
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This photo of Martin Richard, taken at his school in 2012, quickly became an Internet sensation—and a poignant symbol of the city’s losses—after the bombing.
NO MORE HURTING PEOPLE. PEACE
, read the sign held by the boy who became, at eight years old, the youngest person killed at the marathon.
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Boston University graduate student Lingzi Lu, twenty-three, who had gone to the marathon with friends, was killed by the second bomb. A native of Shenyang, China, she was close to completing her statistics degree.
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On Tuesday, April 16, barely twenty-four hours after her daughter, Krystle, was killed on Boylston Street, Patty Campbell struggled through a brief statement to reporters from the porch of her home in Medford, north of Boston. “We can’t believe this has happened,” she said.
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Dozens of running shoes were left behind in sympathy and solidarity at the makeshift memorial to the bombing victims. The memorial began in the street where metal barricades blocked off the crime scene, and was later moved to a corner of the park in Copley Square.
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The day after the bombing, children held candles during a twilight vigil in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood for Martin Richard and other bombing victims. The gathering in Garvey Park, near where Martin lived, drew more than one thousand people, many of whom knew the boy and his family.
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Posters hung at the memorial attracted thousands of signers from across the world, who scrawled messages of love, strength, and solidarity with Boston.
