The April 15 bombings at the Boston Marathon are probably the worst act of terrorism on American soil since the 9/11 attacks some 12 years ago. The attack has all the hallmarks of what a terror event is supposed to do: strike innocent people in a highly visible fashion and in a way that makes the event reverberate around the world.
And strike, the bombers did. Two bombs detonated near the finish line within moments of each other; at the time of this writing, the toll is three dead (one of whom was an eight-year-old boy) and more than 100 injured. Many of the injured lost their legs in the blasts.
Amid the horror and the shock of the bombing, there were heroes. The first responders and spectators who immediately ran to the fallen while everybody else ran the other way, using whatever they had on hand to stop the bleeding and save lives. Some runners who crossed the blasted finish line just kept running to the nearest hospital to give blood.
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