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At the Boston Marathon today after helping the victims:
Carlos's wife Melida posted this on her Facebook page:
Carlos's story:
http://www.thenation.com/article/war-personal-carlos-arredondoage-45roslindale-massachusetts#
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/South/08/25/father.ablaze/
polly7
(20,582 posts)They've been through hell and back.
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)If anyone had the right to just go home today and not help out Carlos did.
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)One of the responders in the photographthe man in the cowboy hathas been identified as Carlos Arredondo, a Costa Rican immigrant whose Marine son died in action in Iraq in 2004. The day he learned of his son's death, Arrendo locked himself in a van with five gallons of gasoline and a propane torch and set the van on fire. He survived, became a peace activist, and was among the spectators who rushed toward the fumes after the explosion today. After tying a tourniquet onto the young man's legs and wheeling him past the finish line to emergency help, Arredondo, seen badly shaken and trembling in this video, gripping a small American flag drenched in blood, talks to some bystanders on the street about the explosion:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/04/boston-marathon-explosions#update12
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)will it ever end? I'm so sick of all of the horrendous violence and killing that seems to be happening all over the world. It seems to be happening more often lately than it used to. Maybe, I am just more aware now than I used to be in years past.
That poor father, to go through all he has been through and then to have such a big heart to try to help others. He is a good example of the best of humanity.
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)Hooray for Carlos!
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Brave, BRAVE souls, they are . . . a five-on-one beating of a man who lost his son in Bewsh's war of choice. What character. And how awesome are DC's Finest, who appear to be talking to the laughing assailants and not even remotely taking a five-on-one assault seriously??
Is every one that has any kind of power in this country a fucking right wing ding or is it just me?