By now, everyone has heard about what happened in the Boston Marathon race recently, which involved two bombs going off near the finish line, killing an 8-year old boy and two girls and putting hundreds others into hospitals! It was a tragic event but amid this attack, I thank God that there are more good people than bad people out there!
Here are examples of some of them (as reposted from Time.com's newsfeed)
Carlos Arredondo: The cowboy-hat-wearing Costa
Rican immigrant and peace activist was handing out American flags to the
runners when the first bomb exploded – a tribute to his son Alexander, a
Marine who died in Iraq in 2004, NBC News reported. Arredondo
told the New York Times
that after the blast he jumped over a fence and ran towards the people
lying on the ground — where he found spectator Jeff Bauman with his
shirt on fire and the lower parts of his legs gone. Arredondo beat the
flames out with his hands, tied a t-shirt around the stump of one of
Bauman’s legs, and kept him company until emergency responders arrived.
Dr. Allan Panter: This Gainesville, Georgia,
doctor was watching his wife run from the sidelines when the bombs went
off. While half a dozen people around him fell to the ground, the
doctor started treating the injured, though he told ABC News that he
spent most of his time trying to resuscitate one woman in particular
until emergency personnel arrived with a stretcher.
Joe Andruzzi: The former New England Patriots offensive
lineman carried an injured woman to safety, and a photo of the
courageous act has gone viral. He did not know the woman’s name; he only
knew that she was from Virginia, and that she and her three daughters
were looking for her husband, who was running in the race. Just moments
ago, he had carried a man covered in blood to the medical tent.
Andruzzi’s instinct to help runs in his family; his brothers are NYC
firefighters who worked at Ground Zero during 9/11. A cancer
survivor himself, Andruzzi had been at a marathon watching party for
his cancer charity at The Forum, a restaurant along the finish line,
when the explosions occurred.
15 National Guard Members: When 15 active-duty
Massachusetts National Guard soldiers planned to run the Boston marathon
with 40-pound “rucks,” military backpacks stuffed with “CamelBaks of
water, extra uniforms, Gatorade, changes of socks—and first-aid and
trauma kits,” they had no idea the supplies would actually come in
handy, they told Mother Jones.
They were participating in “Tough Ruck 2013,” marching the 26 miles in
honor of U.S. troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. When the bombs went
off, the troops, who were assembled at the medical tent near the finish
line, sprang into action and began “pulling burning debris off of
people so that the medical personnel could get to them and begin
triage,” the 1060th Transportation Company’s Lieutenant Stephen Fiola told Mother Jones.
Alyssa Carter: The cousin of Celeste and Sydney
Corcoran — a mother and daughter from Lowell, Mass. who were injured in
the attacks — Carter has already raised more than $220,000 on the crowdfunding website GoFundMe.com to help pay her cousins’ medical bills. Sydney sustained sharpnel injuries, while Celeste lost both her legs.
Boston Restaurants: City eateries such as Appleton
Cafe and Vapiano have been donating food and letting people use their
establishments as places to regroup, according to FOX News.
At one point, El Pelon Taqueria was offering free watermelon juice and
wi-fi, and letting people use its electrical outlets to charge their
phones. The Middle Eastern restaurant Oleana volunteered on Facebook to
put up anyone who needed a place to stay. On Reddit, a California woman
Liz Kosearas organized Random Acts of Pizza, a thread where people
worldwide can arrange via GrubHub
for Boston pizzerias to deliver pies to needy people or places where
people are working around the clock such as Boston hospitals, fire
houses and police stations.
God loves His Children and to have three taken away so early in life, I am confident that justice will prevail and that the terrorists will face the desired consequences either on Earth or in the Afterlife.
Let's pray for the families who were affected by this attack, let's pray for quick recovery of those people still in the hospitals and let's pray that the Human Spirit will prevail, that it will not be knocked down by something as cowardly as this attack.
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