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Post subject: Re: Boston Marathon Tragedy
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 6:17 pm
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There's only one way to deal with punks like that -- whether a schoolyard bully, a rogue terrorist, or the sovereign ruler of some pisspot dictatorship. And that way does not include any ambiguous definition of "justice".

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Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 7:24 pm
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+1000, amen.


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Post subject: Re: Boston Marathon Tragedy
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 9:30 pm
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Thoughts and best wishes to all those in their time of need. I saw some pretty scary photographs that were leaked just minutes after it happened. It is very sobering to think that there are people out there so twisted in the head.


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Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 9:51 pm
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Thoughts and prayers to everyone affected by this tragedy. I worry for my three-year-old daughter growing up in a world where these horrific events seem to be becoming more commonplace. I sincerely hope the perpetrator(s) is/are found and made an example of, without any glorification of their twisted and inexcusable world view.


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Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 9:58 pm
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Thoughts and prayers for the victims of this needless tragedy. Kudos to the first responders and all the agencies involved for all the great work they do. The Boston Marathon is such a great event and it is a shame that this cowardly attack, which harmed innocent adults and children, left a lasting footprint on this event. I hope the wheels of justice is swift!



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the people who did this walk among us, I find this unsettling.

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Post subject: Re: Boston Marathon Tragedy
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 10:47 pm
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Absolutely horrifying. One Alain America ha been attacked by cowards who target innocent people. I know the WH and the media is trying to be all PC about this, but make no mistake, this was an act of terrorism and I think the usual suspects are responsible.

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Post subject: Re: Boston Marathon Tragedy
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 1:32 am
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I haven't heard much on it, but it absolutley sickens me that idiots do this kind of thing. The people responsible are absolute d1cks, cowards and just sickening.
I hope real justice will be made soon.
May all the inncocent lives RIP.
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....this was an act of terrorism and I think the usual suspects are responsible.

....The american government???

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Post subject: Re: Boston Marathon Tragedy
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 2:56 am
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My uncle lives in Boston and happens to be in hospital having had an op the other day. He said suddenly yesterday there were lots of sirens and flashing lights and his floor started filling up with the injured from the Marathon bombing.

This stuff is sometimes close to home.

Warm wishes to those touched by it, and cool heads to those who need to get hold of those who did it and stop them doing it again.

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Post subject: Re: Boston Marathon Tragedy
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 3:23 am
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Ceri wrote:
This stuff is sometimes close to home.


Would have been very close to home for me about ten years ago, as I lived down the street from there at the time. Very disturbing to see very familiar shopfronts on the news surrounded by all that chaos. :shock:

Ceri wrote:
Warm wishes to those touched by it, and cool heads to those who need to get hold of those who did it and stop them doing it again.


Couldn't put that better myself, so I'll just quote you instead!


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Post subject: Re: Boston Marathon Tragedy
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 4:17 am
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"This is a time of shame and sorrow. It is an opportunity to speak briefly to you about the mindless menace of violence in America that again stains our land and every one of our lives.

It is not the concern of any one race. The victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are, most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed. No one - no matter where he lives or what he does - can be certain who will suffer from some senseless act of bloodshed. And yet it goes on and on and on in this country of ours.

Whenever any life is taken by another unnecessarily - whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance of the law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of violence or in response to violence - whenever we tear at the fabric of the life which another has painfully and clumsily woven for himself and his children, the whole of humanity is degraded.

Yet we seemingly tolerate a rising level of violence that ignores our common humanity and our claims to civilization alike. We calmly accept newspaper reports of civilian slaughter in far-off lands. We glorify killing on movie and television screens and call it entertainment. We make it easy for men of all shades of sanity to acquire whatever weapons and ammunition they desire.

Too often we honor swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others. Some people who preach non-violence abroad fail to practice it here at home.

Some look for scapegoats, others look for conspiracies, but this much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.

When you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the policies he pursues, when you teach that those who differ from you threaten your freedom or your job or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies, to be met not with cooperation but with conquest; to be subjugated and mastered.

We learn, at the last, to look at our brothers as aliens, men with whom we share a city, but not a community; men bound to us in common dwelling, but not in common effort. We learn to share only a common fear, only a common desire to retreat from each other, only a common impulse to meet disagreement with force.

Yet we know what we must do. We must admit the vanity of our false distinctions among men and learn to find our own advancement in the search for the advancement of others. We must admit in ourselves that our own children's future cannot be built on the misfortunes of others. We must recognize that this short life can neither be ennobled nor enriched by hatred or revenge.

Our lives on this planet are too short and the work to be done too great to let this spirit flourish any longer. Of course we cannot vanquish it with a program, nor with a resolution.

But we can perhaps remember, if only for a time, that those who live with us are our brothers, that they share with us the same short moment of life; that they seek, as do we, nothing but the chance to live out their lives in purpose and in happiness.

Surely, this bond of common faith, this bond of common goal, can begin to teach us something. Surely, we can begin to work a little harder to bind up the wounds among us and to become in our own hearts brothers once again."


(Speech quote from Robert F. (Bobby) Kennedy, in Cleveland, Ohio April 5, 1968, the day after Dr. King was shot. Some of this wisdom is very applicable to yesterday's events in Boston. Disturbing that 45 years later so much of what RFK said is still so true, if not in fact even more true. RFK himself became a casualty exactly 2 months to the day later in yet another "senseless act of bloodshed.")


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Post subject: Re: Boston Marathon Tragedy
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 4:26 am
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I am wholeheartedly with you, from France, the country that your fathers and grandfathers were released at other times, often leaving their lives!
I sometimes opportunity to receuillir on the graves of your countrymen, in Normandy with many emotions, buried by thousands of kilometers from home.
Now in France, our students aprennent the origins of isalm, but nothing or very little about the second world war, ignoring the sacrifice of so many of yours.
Sad world!

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Post subject: Re: Boston Marathon Tragedy
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 4:38 am
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My sympathies for lives lost (one of them 8 years old) and everyone who is terribly injured in this cowardly attack

The London Marathon is still going ahead this Sunday

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Post subject: Re: Boston Marathon Tragedy
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 4:45 am
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These occurrences are truly tragic, for everyone.

Revenge serves nothing other than to perpetuate a cycle of violence. There is no easy solution to this infinitely complex problem the world finds itself in today. There's probably no solution at all.

Bobby Kennedy's speech only reinforces that the more things change, the more they stay the same.


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Post subject: Re: Boston Marathon Tragedy
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 7:07 am
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isdi wrote:
I am wholeheartedly with you, from France, the country that your fathers and grandfathers were released at other times, often leaving their lives!
I sometimes opportunity to receuillir on the graves of your countrymen, in Normandy with many emotions, buried by thousands of kilometers from home.
Now in France, our students aprennent the origins of isalm, but nothing or very little about the second world war, ignoring the sacrifice of so many of yours.
Sad world!


My father waded ashore safely at Omaha Beach/Normandy France on D-Day as one of only a handful of Air Corps personnel to do so. The Air Corps people were there to set up supply operations for the Air Corps and were temporarily attached to various artillery divisions. Later he worked in Berlin on the Berlin Airlift after the Air Corps became the US Air Force. His nickname was SLIM. This photo is from his Air Corps days before the uniforms changed. This would have been close to his D-Day attire and I think he looked pretty sharp. Sort of like Robert Mitchum:
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Post subject: Re: Boston Marathon Tragedy
Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 8:02 am
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Yes, there is men "had balls" and I wonder how many here in France are still grateful for their giving us free! (most do not know!)
You may be proud of your father, and your country and you have yourself what we lack patriotism as here.
Have your troops leave France recently when I was born, but I've heard stories, and cars "Americans" who stayed!
Know that I have the greatest respect for those who, like your father, have contribute to the eradication of evil states in Europe, unfortunately, history is repeating itself and during my visits to cemeteries Allies, I wonder if these guys died for nothing!

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