Marathon survivor posts emotional letter to Tsarnaev
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Boston Marathon survivor Rebekah Gregory posted a letter to accused bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on her Facebook page Wednesday night, just hours after she testified on the first day of the 21-year-old’s trial in the terror attack.
“TODAY...I looked at you right in the face....and realized I wasn’t afraid anymore,” Gregory wrote. “And today I realized that sitting across from you was somehow the crazy kind of step forward that I needed all along.”
Gregory and her son Noah, who was 5 at the time of the blasts, were injured by the bomb allegedly dropped by the younger Tsarnaev brother on April 15, 2013. The lower part of Gregory’s left leg was torn off by the blast, and eventually she elected to have it amputated after 17 surgeries.
“My bones were lying next to me on the sidewalk,’’ Gregory recalled during her testimony in federal court in Boston. “I felt that was the day I would die.’’
