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Hi everyone. I talked with a good friend who lives in Boston last night, she was still awake at 12 AM my time, which was 3 AM EST. She said the whole city was on lockdown and everyone was told to lock their doors and stay inside. This whole thing is so surreal. I grew up in Connecticut and my family often made the short drive to Massachusetts and the city of Boston, enjoying the wonderfully preserved historical sites...it's hard for me to conceive of Boston as a place of such horror.
There are new breaking developments, apparently the dead suspect has been identified and his brother is barricaded in a house surround by the police. According to reports, the two bombers are brothers, originally from Chechnya. I'm not posting their names as I want to be sure the info is correct.
Just for the record, the two men named in a post above as suspects, Mike Mulugeta and Sunil Tripathi, ARE COMPLETELY INNOCENT AND ARE NOT SUSPECTS.
I read quite a bit of the online chatter about Sunil, a missing Brown University student whose family is frantically looking for him. On the internet he was painted as "suffering from depression", born in Morocco, his father the CEO of a company and that was offered as his "motive"- ??? Photos were shown saying he matched the photos of suspect #2. I didn't think so, and the suspect photos were much too grainy for accurate identification, except maybe by very close friends and family. But the armchair detectives of the internet proclaimed Sunlil guilty. I took the time to read Sunlil's family's "Missing Person appeal", what his many friends said about him, and he sounded like such a kind-hearted and genuinely sweet person that all night I was praying it would turn out to be somebody else... and it is.
I don't know anything about Mr. Mulegeta, but he is innocent too.
Earlier members of the public erroneously "identified" a 17 year old boy as one of the bombers. He's a high school track star whose dream is to compete in the Olympics, which is why he was at the finish line. He was photographed in a blue track suit carrying a shoulder bag and talking to his coach, who also carried a bag.
The Daily Mail published a huge photo of them labeled "BAG MEN" along and circled their duffel bags in red, saying they were "too heavy" to be normal bags. My God, to put people in danger like that is unconscionable, especially when one of them is a MINOR. When the two individuals found out on the internet that they were being fingered by members of the public they were terrified of becoming the victims of vigilante 'justice'. Each went immediately to the police and was quickly cleared. The teenage boy is a really good kid whose family immigrated from Morocco, and he was TERRIFIED that someone would believe the false rumors and hurt his family. He was especially worried about his two little sisters.
It's great that people took photos and video of the bombing and turned them over to police so they could be searched for clues, but it's just plain WRONG for members of the public to publicly announce that THEY have identified a "Suspect" and then post their name, information, Facebook page, etc. Think how traumatic it would be if YOU were named in public as the one who carried out a sickening massacre and YOUR family was placed in danger.
Some poor man was beaten up in an Applebees restaurant because some idiot identified him as a "foreigner" and therefore somehow complicit in the bombing.
I think it should be pointed out that one of the greatest heroes in the aftermath of the bombing was a man named Carlos Arredondo. Carlos immigrated from Costa Rica years ago, is an American citizen, and his American son Alexander volunteered for US military service at the age of 17. Alex became a United States Marine, and was killed in Iraq. Carlo's other son Brian was despondent over the death of his brother, and ended up committing suicide. So Carlos lost BOTH of his children to the Iraq war.
Carlos coped with his overwhelming grief by becoming an activist in the effort to put a human face on the cost of war. He also became a trained Red Cross trained medic. Carlos was there at the finish line of the Boston Marathon to cheer on the Marines taking part in Operation Tough Ruck, whereby Marines honor fallen Marines. They run the marathon in full battle gear complete with 45 lb military rucksacks on their backs. One of the Marines was running in the name of deceased U.S. Marine Alexander Arredondo. When the blast happened Carlos didn't run away in the fear of more bombs; instead he rushed directly into the carnage and began working to save lives.
Carlos in the man in the cowboy hat in the famous photo that shows him and others rushing victim Jeff Bauman to an ambulance. Jeff had horrif injuries. He lost both of his legs above the knee, and if you've seen the full photo before it was cropped I swear to God you'll never forget it. Carlos is seen running beside Jeff's wheelchair, grasping something in his hands-he was holding Jeff's severed femoral artery in his hands, pinching it off so Jeff wouldn't bleed to death. Jeff's face is utterly ashen in the photo; it's obvious that he had lost a lot of blood and was in shock. Carlos's courageous action saved his life.
So before bashing "foreigners" as terrorists, please remember Costa Rican-American Carlos Arredondo, who tragically lost both of his two children to our war in Iraq, yet saved many lives in Boston.
In my opinion Carlos is an American hero.
http://lightbox.time.com/2013/04/18/the-hero-in-the-cowboy-hat-carlos-arredondos-story-by-eugene-richards/?iid=lf|around#1
And I sincerely hope that the missing college student Sunil Tripathi returns safely to his friends and family.
Best regards,
Archaic
Hi everyone. I talked with a good friend who lives in Boston last night, she was still awake at 12 AM my time, which was 3 AM EST. She said the whole city was on lockdown and everyone was told to lock their doors and stay inside. This whole thing is so surreal. I grew up in Connecticut and my family often made the short drive to Massachusetts and the city of Boston, enjoying the wonderfully preserved historical sites...it's hard for me to conceive of Boston as a place of such horror.
There are new breaking developments, apparently the dead suspect has been identified and his brother is barricaded in a house surround by the police. According to reports, the two bombers are brothers, originally from Chechnya. I'm not posting their names as I want to be sure the info is correct.
Just for the record, the two men named in a post above as suspects, Mike Mulugeta and Sunil Tripathi, ARE COMPLETELY INNOCENT AND ARE NOT SUSPECTS.
I read quite a bit of the online chatter about Sunil, a missing Brown University student whose family is frantically looking for him. On the internet he was painted as "suffering from depression", born in Morocco, his father the CEO of a company and that was offered as his "motive"- ??? Photos were shown saying he matched the photos of suspect #2. I didn't think so, and the suspect photos were much too grainy for accurate identification, except maybe by very close friends and family. But the armchair detectives of the internet proclaimed Sunlil guilty. I took the time to read Sunlil's family's "Missing Person appeal", what his many friends said about him, and he sounded like such a kind-hearted and genuinely sweet person that all night I was praying it would turn out to be somebody else... and it is.
I don't know anything about Mr. Mulegeta, but he is innocent too.
Earlier members of the public erroneously "identified" a 17 year old boy as one of the bombers. He's a high school track star whose dream is to compete in the Olympics, which is why he was at the finish line. He was photographed in a blue track suit carrying a shoulder bag and talking to his coach, who also carried a bag.
The Daily Mail published a huge photo of them labeled "BAG MEN" along and circled their duffel bags in red, saying they were "too heavy" to be normal bags. My God, to put people in danger like that is unconscionable, especially when one of them is a MINOR. When the two individuals found out on the internet that they were being fingered by members of the public they were terrified of becoming the victims of vigilante 'justice'. Each went immediately to the police and was quickly cleared. The teenage boy is a really good kid whose family immigrated from Morocco, and he was TERRIFIED that someone would believe the false rumors and hurt his family. He was especially worried about his two little sisters.
It's great that people took photos and video of the bombing and turned them over to police so they could be searched for clues, but it's just plain WRONG for members of the public to publicly announce that THEY have identified a "Suspect" and then post their name, information, Facebook page, etc. Think how traumatic it would be if YOU were named in public as the one who carried out a sickening massacre and YOUR family was placed in danger.
Some poor man was beaten up in an Applebees restaurant because some idiot identified him as a "foreigner" and therefore somehow complicit in the bombing.
I think it should be pointed out that one of the greatest heroes in the aftermath of the bombing was a man named Carlos Arredondo. Carlos immigrated from Costa Rica years ago, is an American citizen, and his American son Alexander volunteered for US military service at the age of 17. Alex became a United States Marine, and was killed in Iraq. Carlo's other son Brian was despondent over the death of his brother, and ended up committing suicide. So Carlos lost BOTH of his children to the Iraq war.
Carlos coped with his overwhelming grief by becoming an activist in the effort to put a human face on the cost of war. He also became a trained Red Cross trained medic. Carlos was there at the finish line of the Boston Marathon to cheer on the Marines taking part in Operation Tough Ruck, whereby Marines honor fallen Marines. They run the marathon in full battle gear complete with 45 lb military rucksacks on their backs. One of the Marines was running in the name of deceased U.S. Marine Alexander Arredondo. When the blast happened Carlos didn't run away in the fear of more bombs; instead he rushed directly into the carnage and began working to save lives.
Carlos in the man in the cowboy hat in the famous photo that shows him and others rushing victim Jeff Bauman to an ambulance. Jeff had horrif injuries. He lost both of his legs above the knee, and if you've seen the full photo before it was cropped I swear to God you'll never forget it. Carlos is seen running beside Jeff's wheelchair, grasping something in his hands-he was holding Jeff's severed femoral artery in his hands, pinching it off so Jeff wouldn't bleed to death. Jeff's face is utterly ashen in the photo; it's obvious that he had lost a lot of blood and was in shock. Carlos's courageous action saved his life.
So before bashing "foreigners" as terrorists, please remember Costa Rican-American Carlos Arredondo, who tragically lost both of his two children to our war in Iraq, yet saved many lives in Boston.
In my opinion Carlos is an American hero.
http://lightbox.time.com/2013/04/18/the-hero-in-the-cowboy-hat-carlos-arredondos-story-by-eugene-richards/?iid=lf|around#1
And I sincerely hope that the missing college student Sunil Tripathi returns safely to his friends and family.
Best regards,
Archaic
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