Picking up the pieces
The victims…they will be healing for the rest of their lives.
It’s been reported that at least five of the injured have lost limbs from the explosions on Monday at the Boston Marathon. More than 170 victims, either still in the hospital, in various stages of care or some who have been released to return home and begin the healing of their wounds.
We will all be picking up the pieces of these past few days for a very long time.
A person trains for months to prepare to run in the Boston Marathon. They run other races to qualify for a spot in this iconic event. It’s a life long achievement to run this race. It’s an even bigger accomplishment to run under the clock and finish it.
It hurts to run a marathon. Muscles sieze-up and ache for days. Feet just want to be massaged and cramps slowly disappear, but that’s usually as serious as it gets.
Who was thinking about IED’s exploding and ball bearings, nails and other pieces of debris piercing their bodies?
First responders, some who had just finished running the race themselves, went from celebrating to saving lives in an instant;hero’s every one of them.
And those who came to watch and cheer on the runners…so many of them ran to help where they could too.
Good “Samaritan’s”…almost rhymes with good “American’s”….
By this time tomorrow, we can only hope that who ever did this crime will be caught. It’s the one big piece of the puzzle that needs to be in place before the healing really begins.
April 17, 2013 @ 6:51 pm
The New Yorker’s PageTurner blog today offered a very apt poem by Neruda (“I’m Explaining a Few Things”, about the Spanish Civil War) and then exhorts us, appropriately, to not address in the abstract the marathon bombing victims and those who assisted them but to use their names when we speak of them: Martin, Jane, Krystle, Arthur, Joe, Jeff, Carlos, Mebrahtom, Lu, Paul, J.P. We must remember their names, speak their names. We must see each one as the human being he or she was and is.
April 17, 2013 @ 6:40 pm
It is astounding to me to read and hear that various media outlets are pulling for a white guy to be the terrorist. Sorry to say but IMHO the majority of the media (the alphabets) are so biased that they cannot get the day of the week correct. Good grief, let’s just get the SOBs and then sort out the prejudices. The victims just want some justice whereas the media is interested in making political points..just amazing and also so sad. Except for the media, Americans came together to try to help each other however possible. Heroes were in abundance everywhere and then there is the media just trying to makes points…oh look at me, see me I have the latest incorrect information but no matter “it is factual but false”. And let’s cut to Diane, to wolf, to Brian, etc….”how should I say this to be PC, it has been reported that it is a white, black, brown, hispanic who may be a Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, Buddist, Wiccan, Mormon, Amish person of interest”.
Could we just put these people out of their miserable lives!! Just astounding!!!
Facts are not hard to find if one looks and asks the right people instead of trying to be #1 always.