Authors: Scott Helman,Jenna Russell
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Nearly six weeks after the bombing, marathoners, spectators, and first responders came together under a spring rain to rerun the course’s final mile, in an event organizers dubbed #onerun.
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Samantha Herwig broke down while crossing the finish line of the Run to Remember in Boston, on May 26, 2013, which honored fallen police officer Sean Collier.
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The June morning that the city began taking down the memorial in Copley Square, Krystle Campbell’s parents, Billy and Patty, toured the site for the first time, taking a rosary as a memento. Many artifacts from the memorial were preserved in the city archive.
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Jane Richard, seven, who was the youngest person to lose a leg in the bombing—and whose older brother, Martin, was killed—appeared at Fenway Park on October 13, 2013, with the youth choir from St. Ann Parish in Dorchester. The children sang the national anthem before Game 2 of the American League Championship Series.
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Red Sox left fielder Jonny Gomes placed the 2013 World Series trophy on the Boston Marathon finish line during the team’s victory parade on November 2, 2013. “This is for you, Boston. You deserve it,” veteran Sox slugger David Ortiz had said, after the Red Sox defeated the St. Louis Cardinals three days earlier, earning a World Series title like no other.
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