So this time they tried to blow up the Boston Marathon, on Boylston St., near the finish line, the equivalent of Times Square in New York City on New Year’s Eve, only on a beautiful spring day in Boston. This time people ended up running away from the most famous road race in this world the way they ran away from lower Manhattan on a beautiful September day that looked and felt like spring nearly 12 years ago.
The number of dead was in the thousands that day. But one thing about acts of terror that does not change, whether it’s planes hitting the two towers of the World Trade Center or three dead at the end of the Boston Marathon, or even a madman with one assault weapon walking through the doors of an elementary school in a small town in Connecticut:
The idea that no one is safe in this world, certainly not Monday in Boston, always the best and happiest day of the whole year in that city.
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