04-18-2013, 01:13 PM
This has been a really hard one.
On a personal note, I grew up outside of Boston and have wonderful memories of attending the Marathon with my family every year and having a Patriots Day Tailgate picnic.
I lost my parents when I was young, so those are some of the memories I cherish.
I'm really pissed that my memories have been tarnished - I can't imagine what it is like for the people who were there.
My niece lives very close to where this happened - she had just left and was home when the bombs went off.
We will never think of the Boston Marathon in the same way again. It is so very sad that such a chaste event became a target for terror.