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Police officers with their guns drawn hear the second explosion down the street. The first explosion knocked down 78-year-old runner Bill Iffrig at the finish line. He got up a few minutes later and finished the race.



A runner embraces another woman on the marathon route near Kenmore Square.



Former New England Patriots offensive lineman Joe Andruzzi carries a woman from the scene.

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Boston heroes ran to help victims
April 17th, 2013



An injured man is loaded into an ambulance after two bombs went off near the finish line of the fabled Boston Marathon on Monday, April 15.



A man comforts a victim on the sidewalk at the scene of the first of two apparent bombings.



A second explosion goes off near the finish line.

whatever.  he can never be a marcos or an erap or a tito sotto.

Quote from: hubag bohol on April 18, 2013, 01:34:29 PM

something new to me... does he sound like neil diamond or justin bieber?

mo lang.  hobbes and habakkuk may not be far behind.

maayo gani kay way tomial tooth ang pikoy sa tbland.

Cars stop at a checkpoint at Los Angeles International Airport on Monday.

A police officer mans his post at New York's Times Square on Monday.

A New York police officer inspects a man's bag in Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan on Monday.

i do not go for her scepter, loll.  she's a sadist queen.  not me.

Police officers stand in front of the White House on Monday after the Secret Service heightened security.

President Barack Obama makes a statement Monday evening.

Members of the Calgary Flames observe a moment of silence before the start of their National Hockey League game against the Minnesota Wild in Calgary, Alberta, on Monday, April 15.

The bombings dominate the front pages of newspapers at a newsstand on Newbury Street in Boston.

A police K-9 unit dog stands by as train passengers pass through Penn Station on Tuesday in New York.

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick speaks at a press conference about the bombings on Tuesday. From left, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, FBI Special Agent in charge of Boston Richard Deslauriers, and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, seated at front left.

Speaker of the House John Boehner makes remarks after a House GOP caucus meeting on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.

Quote from: hubag bohol on April 18, 2013, 11:04:12 AM
Don't you think she might be overqualified?

far from it.  qualification requirements for the job are rather steep.

A message asking passengers to report suspicious activity flashes on an electronic sign inside a New York City subway station on Tuesday.

Members of the U.S. Army National Guard Joint Task Force Empire Shield patrol Grand Central Terminal in New York on Tuesday.

Kosovo's foreign minister, Enver Hoxhaj, expressed sympathy for the victims of the Boston explosions following talks with German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle in Berlin on Tuesday.

she's my lady-in-waiting.

During a committee session in Tokyo on Tuesday, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said that police have stepped up security at key domestic facilities after the Boston explosions.

A man puts flowers near the U.S. Embassy in Moscow on Tuesday.

Arsenal and Everton soccer teams observe a moment of silence for the Hillsborough disaster anniversary and the victims of the Boston terror blasts during the Barclays Premier League on April 16, in London, England. In 1989 nearly 100 people were killed and several hundred injured due to overcrowding at a match at the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England.

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Boston bombings: The world reacts
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French soldiers patrol the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Tuesday, April 16. Security in several major cities was stepped up after at least three people were killed and scores wounded in two explosions Monday near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

Quote from: hubag bohol on April 18, 2013, 10:31:46 AM



Hmm, tan-awa una kon angayan ba ka...

aherm, kailangan pa bang i-memorize yan?

i thought only those of royal blood in monarchies wear tiaras.  maybe i'm going to ask the banana republic to buy me one after all; i already have a scepter anyway... (secret: it's shaped like harry potter's broom.)

don't tell me he's a tbland visitor and is getting tips from hubagamus.  the horror, the horror.

Quote from: hubag bohol on April 18, 2013, 09:42:33 AM
He he... As in, then and now?

nagkagwapo, meyn.  getting handsomer as the years go by, meyn.

i know... ang bata si chewbacca sa gamay pa.  ang iro si intergalactic bandit nga gitupihan.

The letters to Wicker and Obama were stopped at a government mail-screening facility after initial tests indicated the presence of the deadly poison ricin.

Because initial tests can be "inconsistent," the envelopes have been sent off for additional tests, an FBI statement said. The FBI does not expect to receive results from the tests until Thursday, federal law enforcement sources told CNN.

The letters read: "To see a wrong and not expose it, is to become a silent partner to its continuance."

more at http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/17/politics/tainted-letter-intercepted/index.html

Feds: Mississippi man arrested in ricin scare

By Matt Smith and Carol Cratty, CNN
April 18, 2013


A Prince George's County, Md., firefighter dressed in a protective suit walks out of a government mail screening facility in Hyattsville, Md., April 17, 2013. (Alex Brandon/AP Photo)

(CNN) -- An arrest has been made in connection with possibly contaminated letters sent to President Obama and Sen. Roger Wicker, the Department of Justice said Wednesday.

Paul Kevin Curtis was arrested by the FBI at his home in Corinth, Mississippi, the department said in a statement.

Discovered Tuesday, the letters were addressed to Wicker, a Mississippi Republican, and to Obama. The justice department release said a third letter was sent to a Mississippi justice official.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vhFnTjia_I#
Sweet Caroline
Neil Diamond

New York Yankees pays tribute to Boston Red Sox with "Sweet Caroline" 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/16/yankees-sweet-caroline-boston-tribute_n_3095430.html?ir=Sports#ooid=JrczAxYjrrL77SvUYLvtFa8rD3We5WpF

The New York Yankees decided to pay tribute to the city of Boston by bringing a Fenway Park tradition to the Bronx on Tuesday night.

In the aftermath of the deadly Boston Marathon bombings on Monday afternoon, the Yankees chose to play Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline" during the third inning of their game against Arizona on Tuesday night.

The Red Sox began playing Diamond's hit song nightly in the eighth inning of home games in 2002, according to Boston.com.

The Yankees also displayed a banner outside of Yankee Stadium to express support for Boston.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

hahaha!  nakakita pa gyod ang botoy ay, klarong matag tiki.

p.s. ekskyus me, i'm not chinese.  i'm tibetan.

http://media.zenfs.com/

@pourmecoffee

First responders (Photo: Kylie Atwood/CBS News) pic.twitter.com/R9zMZiDLWk
3:49 PM - 15 Apr 2013



more at http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/the-upbeat/regular-people-seek-help-during-boston-bombings-191930794.html

@FreddyWheeler

A Boston Public Works worker rushes towards the explosion with a wheelchair. #fox25 pic.twitter.com/UggjS4GnfO
8:33 PM - 15 Apr 2013

@LukeRussert

Buddy tells me 1st responder wheeled this woman out of danger and then went back to scene. #Boston pic.twitter.com/YJRWwVMw8b
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Acts of bravery and kindness at the Boston bombings

By Mike Krumboltz | The Upbeat
17 April 2013

An increasing number of stories are coming out of Boston about the bravery of regular folks at the site of the Boston Marathon attacks on Monday. After the two explosions at the finish line area, people sought ways small and large to help.

Many of these accounts are being told via photos posted to Twitter and other social media networks. Below are a few examples of regular folks rising to the challenges of an extraordinarily difficult day.

Hospital spokeswoman Brooke Tyson Hynes said at a press conference Tuesday afternoon that “He told her, ‘You’re going to have a scar, but you’re going to be OK. It’ll be like my scar.’ ” She added, the unidentified patient “believes he did indeed save her life.”

Hynes said, “If there is a Sergeant Tyler out there, please call Tufts Medical Center Public Affairs, and she would very much like to thank him personally.”

She added, “That’s an important part of her recovery, as much as her medical recovery right now.”

In the face of these tragic events, stories of kind and courageous acts by ordinary folks have surfaced. This is one more.

http://news.yahoo.com/

Looking for one good man: Boston patient searches for her savior

By Claudine Zap | The Upbeat
17 April 2013


Site of one of the bomb blasts at the Boston Marathon (Elise Amendola/AP/)

A patient has a message for the man who picked her up and carried her to safety: Thank you.

According to a report from the Boston Globe, one of 19 injured patients brought to Tufts Medical Center after the dual bomb blasts at the Boston Marathon was helped by a good Samaritan. She would like to relay her gratitude.

The patient, who suffered severe leg injuries, remembers her hero as “Sergeant Tyler,” a former Marine, who may have been in uniform, and who, she recalls, had a scar on his left arm.

"New Hampshire is such a great place!” Ms Lu wrote on her Facebook page on October 7 last year. The Boston University student celebrated the start of her American adventure in an online photo gallery called: “New Beginning in BU.”

Towards the start of her time in the United States, she joined a group of international students on an excursion to the Toah Nipi Retreat, a countryside retreat for Christians around 90 minutes drive from Boston. The retreat’s website describes it as “a place to come away, meet God, and be renewed”.

The student also appears to have been a fan of classical music â€" her Facebook page contains a link to the site of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

By Wednesday morning, friends and micro-bloggers had posted more than 5,000 messages on the student’s Weibo account, underneath a photograph she posted just hours before being killed in Boston. The photograph, of that day’s breakfast, carried the caption: “My wonderful breakfast.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

“I still have a strong recollection of her even though she graduated many years ago,” he told the Shenyang Evening News before Ms Lu’s death was confirmed.

Ms Lu left that school in 2008, according to the Liaoshen Evening News, and secured a place at the Beijing Institute of Technology where she studied international trade.

In 2010, Ms Lu spent two months doing work experience at the Bank of China in her home province, according to an entry on her LinkedIn page. She also spent four months working in Beijing for Deloitte Consulting between 2011 and 2012.

Late last year, after graduating in Beijing, she moved to the United States to study for a Master’s degree in statistics at Boston University.

The announcement of Ms Lu’s death came after a number of concerned friends and classmates had taken to social media to report she was “missing”. One friend posted a telephone number on Twitter with the message: “Help us find her! We can’t find her!”

The student’s father, Lu Jun, also expressed his fears to a local newspaper on Tuesday. “We haven't been able to contact her. Why didn't she make a call to tell us she's safe?” he told the Shenyang Evening News.

Lu Lingzi was raised in the northeastern province of Liaoning and studied at Shenyang’s Northeast Yucai School.

Yang Yongkun, a former teacher, described her as an “exceptionally clever [and] modest" student.

Boston Marathon bombs: third victim identified as Chinese student

China is in mourning after the third fatal victim of the Boston Marathon bombing was named as Lu Lingzi, a 23-year-old student from Shenyang in the northeastern province of Liaoning.


Lu Lingzi

By Tom Phillips, Shanghai
17 Apr 2013

“Shenyang girl Lu Lingzi was killed in the Boston bomb blast,” the city’s Liaoshen Evening News wrote on its Twitter-like Weibo account.

Ms Lu-â€" who used the English name Dorothy Lu in the United States-- was reportedly waiting near the marathon’s finishing line with two friends when two explosions threw the event into chaos.

One of those friends, Zhou Danling, was in a “stable condition” on Tuesday night after undergoing two operations at the Boston Medical Center, according to the Chinese news agency Xinhua. The other friend was unharmed.

The Queen walking behind the sword that was also used at Winston Churchill's funeral Picture: GETTY

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's coffin is carried by pallbearers out from St Paul's Cathedral Picture: AP

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

The Archbishop of London, Richard Chartres, walks behind former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher's coffin Picture: PA

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

Members of the Armed Services prepare to carry the coffin up the steps of St Paul's Picture: GETTY

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

Remains of pressure cooker that FBI says was part of one of the bombs that exploded during the Boston Marathon, April 17, 2013.

http://www.voanews.com/

17 April 2013


A South Korean soldier during anti-terror drills at the Government Complex in Sejong, south of Seoul, South Korea Picture: AP

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

Flowers are seen at the barricaded entrance at Boylston Street near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts.

http://www.voanews.com/

An Indian Sikh devotee takes a holy dip in the sarover (water tank) at the Golden Temple in Amritsar.

http://www.voanews.com/

16 April 2013


Visitors participate in the annual water-splashing festival to mark the New Year of the Dai minority in Xishuang Banna, Yunnan province.

http://www.voanews.com/

In December 2011, Alexander's younger brother Brian, then 24, who had become depressed after the first family tragedy and begun using drugs, killed himself.


Carlos Arredondo's sons Alex and Brian. Lance Cpl. Alex Arredondo was killed in Iraq in 2004, his brother Brian committed suicide in 2011. Source: Jamaica Plain Patch http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

Video footage after the blasts shows Arredondo, gripping a small blood-soaked American flag, shaking in shock as he describes the scene to people on the street. He said the apparent cause of the blast was an improvised explosive device.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/

It emerged on Tuesday that the man in the wheelchair later had to have both legs removed. Jeff Bauman, 27 had a double amputation at Boston Medical Centre. He had come to see his girlfriend run.

Arredondo's story appears equally dramatic and harrowing. He was reportedly waiting at the finish to greet a runner, who was competing in the race in memory of his son Alexander Arredondo, a lance corporal in the US marines who was killed by a sniper in 2004 in Iraq. Carlos, a self-employed handyman, reacted to his son's death by setting fire to himself inside a van, suffering severe burns. He subsequently became a peace campaigner, in part in remembrance of his son.

A 2007 New York Times story recounted how Arredondo took a pickup truck around the country, carrying a flag-draped coffin and photos and mementos of Alexander, including a football and his Winnie the Pooh toy. "As long as there are marines fighting and dying in Iraq, I'm going to share my mourning with the American people," he told the paper.

Carlos Arredondo hailed as hero for Boston Marathon rescue efforts

Cowboy-hatted peace campaigner and bereaved father was seen racing to help victims of blasts at finish line

Peter Walker   
The Guardian, Tuesday 16 April 2013


Carlos Arredondo carrying a bloodied US flag at the scene of the Boston Marathon explosions. Photograph: Darren Mccollester/Getty Images

The aftermath of many public disasters sees the swift emergence of a public hero to counterpoint the tragedy. With the Boston Marathon attack, this person is even more extraordinary than usual: the cowboy-hatted peace campaigner and bereaved father Carlos Arredondo.

The 52-year-old Costa Rican immigrant is visible in a series of photos and videos taken immediately after the twin blasts near the finish line. The distinctive, long-haired figure sprints across the street to tear away fencing and scaffolding to reach victims. Reports said he used his clothes and towels to try to staunch bleeding.

In one graphic photograph, Arredondo can be seen seemingly pinching shut the end of an artery on the part-severed leg of a man being carried away in a wheelchair. "I kept talking to him. I kept saying: 'Stay with me, stay with me,'" Arredondo told the newspaper Maine Today.

We commend into your hands those whose lives were lost in the senseless Boston bombing; Jesus, Mary, Joseph! My Jesus, mercy.

hinoon, modern art man god kaha... i can't expect a michelangelo cake or a raphael parfait.  but can't we have a pollock soup hereabouts?

sa tinuod, di na siya inday.  ondoy na siya.  gusto lang sa iyang boyfriend nga mahimo siyang babayeng tuwapos.

mao diay na si brad pitt?

makasabot ko sa ameow, pero unsa may meowa?  mora man na ug bag-ong brand ug north korean car, ig-agaw sa tuhod sa hyundai...

aguy.  what a sad ending to a sad story.  unsolved murder diay intawon ni.  way laing details diha?  asa man ang mga ginikanan ni whang?  niinom ba kaha siyag hilo o gitingal ug wakwak?  secret agent ba kaha si whang?  taga-north korea kaha ang nagtingal niyag hilo?  sure kaha ta nga di si kim jong un ang nagtingal?

nalibog sad ko aning third placer nga senior diplomat nga si lauro baja jr.  (he's been writing pieces on diplomacy lately, so i did my research.) 

first, senior tuod siya, being already in his early 70s, pero di na siya diplomat.  he is retired.  front page news intawon ni siya sa middle east sa una kay gikiha ug household helper who claimed she paid the baja couple $5k to get to the u.s. with them and find a job as a nurse, and was paid only $100 a month as their household help, the only one in their 4-storey manhattan residence (Marichu Baoanan vs. Lauro Baja, New York, 2008).

he may then have businesses or consultative jobs (like being consultant on foreign affairs to manny villar) because he couldn't have income enough to pay for such mind-boggling taxes just by being a diplomat, retired or not.

i see.  goodness me.  lupig siya ni derek ramsay?  libog gihapon ko.  does this mean she's no longer that viable, or her tax lawyer is just so good?

wa lagi sa top ten si sharon cuneta.  i heard before nga siya ang top nga income earner sa entertainment media.

duda ko nga kaning mga bigtime rich nga nanganlan ni sir fd separate and ilang corporate taxes, way labot sa personal income tax.

hahaha!  leave it to bugsay.  mahimo pod niyang butangan ug flush for inodoro ang ibabaw sa ulo, take note.

si bugsay ra ana ang makatubag.  nakadungog ko nga fashion designer na siya ug mga cabinets and other home and office furnitures.  kun moadto ka sa balingsya, maayo pay magpasukod na lang ka kun unsay fashionable drawer nga angay nimong isul-ob.

haaay, salamat wa ko maapil sa lista, hihihi.

Quote from: hubag bohol on April 17, 2013, 10:34:17 AMHe added that he was talking about a basic household pressure cooker of the sort found in many kitchens.

huhuhu, maayo gani kay gidukdok ni banana republic ang rubber rim sa takob sa among pressure cooker.  since then it was never the same again, and we have stopped using it.  (niundang na man pod kog pamaligya ug corned beef.) 

nabuthan baya ko sa una ug pressure cooker; maayo gani kay layo ko.  maayo pod nga karne baka ray sulod kay wa namo mabatasan nga molata ug lansang ug ball bearings.

ever since, mas maayo pang molata ug karne over a charcoal stove.  biyaan lang human pamahaw, bisitahon duol na paniudto.  di pa ta mabalaka sa electric bills.

Honorable Mention   Alland Dharmawan, Indonesia   'Nature's Harmony'   

http://www.voanews.com/

Honorable Mention   Atet Dwi Pramadia, Indonesia   'Fishing in the Cemetery'

Honorable Mention   Serg Kuran, Ukraine   'Themselves to Overcome'

Honorable Mention   Tonya Roloff   'Kenyan Girl'

Honorable Mention   Sunaryo Haryo Bayu, Indonesia   'Water'

Honorable Mention   Jose Coelho, Brazil   'Fisherman in the Amazon'

Honorable Mention   Erwin Kurniawan, Indonesia   'Chasing Geese'

10th Place   Riza Nur Indra Lukmana, Indonesia   'Work In The Morning'

9th Place   Prasetyo Wibowo, Indonesia   'Monks on Borobudur'

8th Place   Rabin Chakrabarti, India   'Flute Players'

7th Place   Mde. Khalid Rayhan Shawon, Bangladesh   'Shy Woman in Holi Festival'

6th Place (tie)   Zuopeng Zhang, Canada   'Mongolian Pasture'

6th Place (tie)   Atho Ullah, Indonesia   'The Fire Fighters'

5th Place   Hisham Sarsour, Palestinian Territories   'The Shoe Maker'

4th Place   Nimai Chandra Ghosh, India   '50 Toes' 

3rd Place   Dadan Ramdani, Indonesia   'Bull Race'

Also from Dhaka, photographer Saud A Faisal's depiction of family life in the poisonous rubble of the city's leather industry won second prize.



2nd Place   Saud A Faisal, Bangladesh   'Born in the Smoke'

1st Place   Raihan Parvez, Bangladesh 'Existence'

April 15, 2013

Passion, angst, beauty and joy.  All these emotions and more were shared by photographers from around the world in the 2013 VOA Photo Contest.

But it was images from Bangladesh that won the hearts and eyes of judges.  In fact, entries from Dhaka took first, second and seventh place in a competition that saw more than 4,500 entries from 110 countries.

Top honors went to Raihan Parvez from Dhaka for his black and white portrait of an older women protecting her grain from three hungry ducklings.

A lighted-hearted take on the theme of man against nature, the stand-off is more heart-wrenching when one understands the bleak reality of a struggle for life for villagers in an area used to rising sea levels, failed crops and devastating cyclones.

By winning this year's contest, Parvez will receive and Apple iPad with Retina Display.

Third victim

Boston University said it was awaiting permission* from the family of the third victim before releasing the name. The victim had been watching the finish of the marathon with two friends, one of whom â€" another BU grad student â€" was also injured.

Robert Hill, the dean of Marsh Chapel, visited the injured student Monday evening and again on Tuesday afternoon. "She is doing well," said Hill. "She has her friends around her, and she will soon have family around her."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/

*as of posting time, 11:09H philippine time

Her grandmother, Lillian Campbell of Somerville, told the Boston Globe that she had been going to the marathon finish line every year. "She's been doing it since she was a little girl. She didn't miss a marathon, watching it at the finish line."

In a statement on its Facebook page, the Summer Shack restaurant chain where Campbell had worked as a manager, said: "The Summer Shack family is devastated by the loss of our beloved Krystle. No words can describe how much she meant to all of us.

"She was an incredible woman, always full of energy and hard at work, but never too tired to share her love and a smile with everyone. She was an inspiration to all of us. Please keep her and her family in your thoughts and prayers."

Krystle Campbell, 29



Krystle Campbell, 29, from Medford, Massachusetts was identified as one of the victims by her father, William.

He told Yahoo News that she was at the finish line to cheer on her boyfriend, who was running in the marathon.

"My daughter was the most loveable girl," said Campbell. "She helped everybody, and I'm just so shocked right now. We're just devastated."

The family worshiped at St Ann's church in the area. Jay Richards and his daughter Christina (who are not related to the Richard family) walked up to the church hand-in-hand on Tuesday. Christina had taken her first holy communion with Martin at the church last year.

"It's very sad. You never know how these things are going to affect you. This is certainly affecting us today," Jay Richards said.

Christina took religious education classes at the church with Martin each week, Richards said. He said the Richard family were "nice people, just like anyone else in the community".

Staff at Martin's former kindergarten described him as a "loving, caring" child. "He was just a great little kid," said Russ Wilson, regional director at the Pope John Paul II Catholic Academy. "Always a smile â€" loving, caring, great enthusiasm for school, for learning … a very thoughtful little boy."

Martin attended the school between the ages of four and five and left in June 2010. His older brother Henry also went to Pope John Paul II. "It's a tragedy. An absolute tragedy," Wilson said.

The death has left Dorchester in shock. At the family home on Tuesday, neighbours and friends left flowers and gifts. Candles burned on the front steps, while the word "peace" had been written in chalk.

Neighbour Betty Delorey, 80, said Martin loved to climb the trees and hop the fence outside his home.

"I can just remember his mother calling him, 'Martin!' if he was doing something wrong," she said. "Just a vivacious little kid."

She said: "I'm sick to my stomach. It's hard to say anything, really."

Stephen Lynch, a US congressman for Massachusetts who has known the family for 25 years, said they had just gone for ice cream and were returning to watch the runners finish the race on Boylston Street when the bombs exploded.

"They were looking in the crowd as the runners were coming to see if they could identify some of their friends when the bomb hit," Lynch told the Associated Press.

He added: "Ball bearings are meant as anti-personnel munitions," he said. "They were trying to cause carnage here."

The details of their deaths are heartbreaking. The Richard family had been trying to get away from the first explosion when they were caught in the second blast. Martin was killed, while his mother, Denise, and six-year-old sister Jane suffered serious wounds in the attack. His father Bill was hit on the legs by metal fragments and ball bearings. Martin's older brother, Henry, was not injured.

"My dear son Martin has died from injuries sustained in the attack on Boston," Bill Richard said in a statement released on Tuesday. "My wife and daughter are both recovering from serious injuries.

"We thank our family and friends, those we know and those we have never met, for their thoughts and prayers. I ask that you continue to pray for my family as we remember Martin. We also ask for your patience and for your privacy as we work to simultaneously grieve and recover. Thank you."


This undated photo provided by Bill Richard shows his son, Martin Richard, who was among the at least three people killed in the explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, Apr. 15, 2013. (VOA)