This is so sad. We can not feel safe anywhere. I have not liked being in large crowds for awhile. My daughter runs in these races at home. We have 2 big ones in atlanta. This is scary.
Our Granddaughter and significant other live in Boston and were here for the weekend. They travel on the train. The train was stopped in Connecticut while they put bomb sniffing dogs through the whole train. She said "Yea". After arriving they took a Cab rather than take the " T " as they usually would. Got home safely.
I woke to this terrible news this morning. My heart goes out to everyone in Boston...it's not safe anywhere these days. My dear grandson spent quite a bit of time in Boston and said how much he loved it there...said I would love it too!
It's shocking that such an event is the target of violence. And it isn't safe anywhere these days as Bin Laden found out hiding just off that Pakistani military base when he got a visit from navy seals.
Al Queda isn't winning this war. They haven't been able to repeat what they did that september, their ranks have been decimated, the perpetrator of 911 has been executed, the freedom tower is going up, most crime numbers in the USA are on their way down, and while events like this are truly terrible, the message is clear that if you do these things you will be hunted down wherever you are.
Timothy McVeigh removed any sense of safety for me. What was scarier was the number of people who publicly defended his actions.
What happened yesterday is horrible. But there are many people who live these types of events all of the time. We are lucky in this country that this type of terror is the exception.
Paulc, I was living in Southern Oklahoma at the time McVeigh bombed the Myrrah Building. It was horrifying. The 18th anniversary is coming up this Friday as well as the 20th anniversary of the Branch Davidian fire. Those same people are at it again defending him, as well as defending the person who set the bombs off yesterday at the Marathon.
Hopefully, this type of terror will continue to be an exception but in reality you aren't safe anywhere anymore.
We lived in the Boston area for 36 years. When we got home from the pain clinic yesterday at 4 PM, I turned on the TV. Sid watched all the bomb coverage with me for about 1/2 hour, then fell asleep. He then woke up and watched the coverage from 6 PM until 7:30 PM. At 8:30, during a commercial break on The Voice, I mentioned to him that the Providence airport (We were both born and brought up in Prov., RI) would be busy with all the reporters flying in because Boston's Logan airport was closed. He asked me why it was closed. When I said because of the Marathon bombing, he had NO IDEA what I was talking about.
And tonight, he picked up the paper, saw the big headline about the bombing, and asked me if I had heard about it. He knew nothing about it. Zero.
And my cousin always asks me if Sid and I still have conversations. That answer would be no.
My DH and I were watching our favorite news channel this morning and coverage of the bombing came on - I wondered how it would affect him, so I was going to change the channel when he said - Did they find the little girl that was missing in Oshawa? Was she dead? - His mind was still on an Amber Alert we had on the weekend!
I am glad my wife decided to not watch the news. She knew about the bomb but realize watching more about it would upset her. As it is she had a nightmare related to it. But today she speaks very little about it.
I had checked with a friend whose daughter lives outside Boston and she wasn't anywhere close to it but he didn't know about so thanked me for thinking of his family. It took him at least 30 minutes to reach her, I warned him that the cell network would be overloaded.
My daughter is a runner and is involved with a runner's group in Facebook. One of the gals in the group ran the Marathon and crossed the finish line a couple of minutes before the explosions. Her partner and father were walking toward the finish line. If they had walked a bit faster, they would have been right there.
Joan... for some reason your post reminded me of Linda Ellerby's TV sign off. Do you remember her.... ? She'd always end each broadcast with the words, "............and so it goes..." That's our lives with Alzheimer's. Yes you have conversation. Mary H from Little Rock lived with her DH for years after he become totally non-verbal. Which is worse. Each of us have different opinions. But in time, you'll get so used to repeating things you say, believe it or not, you won't even notice it. Just like you did with Joel. We learned not to tell them we were going until right before we had to leave. Maybe it is a blessing he didn't get overwrought over the Boston bombing. He could have thought he was still there and it was happening to him or someone he knew. We lived through actual hurricanes and tragedies on TV, and 2 sibling deaths... and his reactions were exactly like Sid's. Doesn't make it any easier on you right now.. I know that. Bless your heart!!!
This is like watching the TV show, Criminal Minds, for real. The surveillance video, the publics' cell video, a neighbor Skyping, the pictures all over social media, the city lockdown. It is scary as Hell when it's for real. But it's also reassuring to know how fast technology helps identify and catch these people. I agree with ol Don that the one who is still on the loose must have help.
My dear friend, our message board monitor, lives just outside of Boston in the town next to where I used to live. One of her daughter's lives IN Boston, but works outside of the city. When I spoke to my friend Monday night, she was planning on having her daughter come to her house after work. I just called her and she's not home. I left a message for her to call me, so I know what's going on. Sure hope her d is with her and not locked down in her Boston condo.
We couldn't contact our granddaughter in Cambridge this morning for hours. When she finally called back she didn't even know what was going on. They don't have a TV.