Marathon bombing victims back on course
Two people who lost limbs at the 2013 Boston Marathon are participating in this year's race.
Boylston Street in the years after the Boston Marathon bombings. Her mind was 26.2 miles away.
After losing her left leg in the 2013 finish-line explosions, Haslet decided she would return to the course – this time as a runner. When the race leaves Hopkinton on Monday, Haslet will be one of 31 members of the One Fund community – survivors of the attacks, their families and supporters – who will be in the field.
“A lot of people think about the finish line,” she said. “I think about the start line.”
More than 30,000 runners are scheduled to participate in the 120th edition of the race. Among them are Haslet and Patrick Downes, a Boston College graduate who had his left leg amputated after the bombings.
Downes, 32, was a runner before the bombing, having completed the race in 2005 with his wife, who lost both legs in the attacks.
Read More: http://www.pressherald.com/2016/04/17/marathon-bombing-victims-back-on-course/
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Today. Our morning meeting was about active shooters. How to duck and cover. How to survive. The eve of the marathon and we are once again reminded of the threat.
No matter, Boston is strong and always will be.
I had friends there. They worked there. The windows blew out from their building and they ushered the people from the street through their back door. They survived, scared emotionally yet they too survived.
GO BOSTON!
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Thank you, Iliyah.
Obama said that we would run again. I never knew it would happen in three years.
these unfathomable tragedies. So heartbreaking but inspiring at the same time.
Mahalo for letting us know of their incredible triumphs! 
BostonStrong~
Mahalo, she~
So happy about these amazing runners in Boston.. that was such a horrible horrible cruel, unimaginable execution to carry out by these ********.
I am walking down to watch them now. They are the best of the best.
