Today's is Patriot's Day (the third Monday of April) - celebration of the anniversary of the Battle of Lexington. Public schools were closed this week for their April vacation. It is a tradition for the Boston Marathon, Red Sox game and Bruins game to happen on Patriot's Day.
Today thousands of runners from around the world came to run in the Boston Marathon. It was meant to be a day filled with fun and happy moments but instead it turned into a nightmare of smoke, blood and cries of pain. Two explosions went off at 2:50pm near the finish line along Boylston Street in Downtown Boston. Currently the death toll is at 3 people with over 90 spectators injured. Nobody knows yet who is responsible for the horrific event. As it all happened, we watched the news, followed facebook and tweets and checked with people that we know to see if they were ok. We then heard that a suspicious pakage was found by the Harvard T and that there was a fire at the JFK Library were potentially could be related to the explosions. The race was stopped, parts of the T were halted, the Bruins game was cancelled, Logan International halted flights, the Harvard Kennedy School was evacuated and other US cities were on high security alert. It felt like September the 11th all over again.
What a sad day for this great city, Boston. I don't that this city will be the same ever again. It is a sad day for America.
Innocent people were killed/injured - many had the feet blown off... one of the dead is an 8 year old child.
Fortunately, we didn't go to the marathon. Some of Athol's fellow classmates ran or went to support the runners but luckily all are safe. It is very scary to think that this happened so close to us and Athol and I have even walked along that street where the bombs went off.
Who would do such a thing? Is it a terrorist attack? Is it angry soldiers protesting against Patriot's Day? Why harm innocent bystanders?
The bombs were reported to be small homemade bombs and the police are questioning a man. It all seems a bit unreal. My heart goes out to all those affected on this horrific day.
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