"13 Examples Of People Being Awesome After The Attack On The Boston Marathon"

[applegrove]

13 Examples Of People Being Awesome After The Attack On The Boston Marathon

by Max Nisen at Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/inspiring-images-from-boston-2013-4

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Despite all of the horror, fear, and loss in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings, people have responded with bravery.

Many people who finished the marathon after the bombings just kept on running to area hospitals to see if they could donate blood or otherwise help.

We've found the tweets, images, and stories that document some of the amazing responses to the tragedy.


A first responder, carrying what appears to be a child to safety:


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[Cha]

1. Thank you applegrove.. Thankful to all the First

Responders in Boston.

Tweet found on the obamadiary

CarolMae @CarolMaeWY

Boston you are in our prayers

[applegrove]

2. Thank you Cha

[MannyGoldstein]

3. Hey, it's Boston

I've come to expect awesome.

And that's an awesome feeling.

[Le Taz Hot]

4. This is a great thread.

People need to read this after seeing the aftermath of such evil. K & R.

[Hekate]

5. KnR

~~*~~

[KauaiK]

6. This IS awesome

Strangers offering accommodations, food, comfort and help.

[niyad]

7. k and r--thank you so much for sharing this, and helping to remind us that there are so many really

good people around. the offers of rooms, beds, food--just amazing.

[sheshe2]

8. K&R!

Boston, thanks you. We do.

[adieu]

9. I'm not sure donating blood

after running a marathon is the best idea. Could go into a sudden drop in blood pressure and go into a coma or something.

[Patiod]

10. As the first to criticize male violence, I salute Big Fellows

The pictures and video from yesterday show a lot of Big Fellows pitching in - moving metal gating, carrying people, doing what you sometimes simply need a Big Fellow to do.

I live with and love a Big Fellow, and salute them for when they see a need, know their size and strength are required, and jump into action.

(I'm also delighted when I see a girl's ponytail peeking out from the bulk of a first responder uniform in these images. We Tough Girls rock, too!)

[myrna minx]

11. <3 Boston.

[mike dub]

12. Boston area people willing to house/pick up people who were stranded

hits me the most.

I've run many Walt Disney World Marathons ---all on what turned out to be one of the 'coldest days in the Orlando area' every year I ran it! = a Net of 36 degrees at 9am at the finish line, every time I ran that race. Sitting a couple times, mildly hypothermic, at the finish line was a bad experience after running 26.2 miles. Hard to describe the shiver, but I'll just say it wasn't fun.

If you run in cold weather in minimal clothing, your body amazingly equalizes your core temp all throughout the 26 miles of physical activity--- but the moment you stop running, you lose the heat. This is why all the yellow runners' bags were in the news today. Runners at Boston pack sweats or other layering clothes into these bags, check their bags onto a school bus at the starting line, and then their warmup/post race clothes/bags are driven to the finish line on a bus...so runners can retrieve them from the bus/put them on to warm up, at the finish.

And the one time I ran Boston -- cold rain / some sleet /April 2007, I was also cold and semi-disoriented after the finish. But luckily, warm downtown building lobbies were open for us to warm up in after I retrieved my warmup clothes from the bus, and put them on.

In a marathon of chaos though, (this year's Boston Marathon) folks lending a hand to house/pick up cold runners/stranded folks would be akin to a Gold Mine for those in need. Wonderful effort, and compassion. Hard to describe the cold and dysphoria after a cool weather marathon... and these volunteers really helped runners and people in need after the Boston Marathon. Thankful for them.

[applegrove]

13. Yeah, that got me too. I'm so glad for the great things people did yesterday.

[Mapletonian]

14. For those who read the article, former NE Patriot

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Joe Andruzzi's brother is on the NYFD. He was in one of the towers when they collapsed. He just barely made it out.

Guess heroism runs in the family.

[redstatebluegirl]

15. Wonderful!

I don't watch Morning Joe much but this morning Mike Barnicle did a a wonderful piece about "this is who we are" showing the acts of kindness. He ended it by saying violence is not who we are. I hope this terrible act is not home grown but I have a feeling it may be. But those people are the minority, they are sick, only sick people do things like this, it isn't who we are....