News Explosion At Boston Marathon 2013

[The Albatross]

Basically it means that without being willing to fight you will be enslaved.

"The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots." ~ Erich Fromm

 

[mamachick]

I just saw this thread and realize it is old news. It was so horrible. My daughters boyfriend and his friends ran in the race but finished early. (they are 25-27). A family mutual friend in is 50's was far behind by their timing. There was no phone service but he got to a computer and emailed my daughter that he was ok. They were not suppose to leave hotel but went to check another hotel for this 50 yr old. They saw some of the aftermath. I think it has had an effect on him. He seems much more angry these days.

 

[squireparty]

I was in Mexico when the explosions happened. It was so surreal as I was in Los Algodones, which is seven miles away from Yuma, Arizona, and everything in town in walking distance to the US border.

I was having glasses made and I saw the US flag in the distance at half mast and the first thought I had was the someone offed Obama. The dental tourist hotel I was staying at had computers with Internet access and I thought to myself, no, I don't want to know what happened. No, no, no. I'll find out when I cross the border soon enough.

I found out sure enough after crossing as I read the headlines on a newspaper. Gotta say I knew something intense had happened as I have never crossed back into the US with such a high level of scrutiny and so many rapid fire questions slammed at me by Customs to see if my story stayed the same - or so it seemed to me.

Absolutely crazy, but I have to remember that there is good in the world, too, and not very often will good make front page headlines.

 

[presentjoy]

Noticed new activity on this thread, never really read through it..

We still can't really go downtown without everything coming flooding back. Dropping J off two blocks from there that morning is etched into my memory. He sent me a text before the news ever hit. I flipped through the soap operas and cooking shows and then suddenly all the channels broke it and the one I watched played unedited footage which I'm not sure I processed. It was.. unedited.

The rest is just..

For another time or place I guess. The most surreal weird moment was hours after when he was being evacuated, and he texted me "Can't text, they're making us run". It still somehow seems funny to me. Except it's not. :(