Hero of the Boston bombings: How father who lost his soldier son in Iraq saved lives

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after blasts rocked his home city.



An inspirational anti-war protester whose soldier son died in Iraq and another took his own life is being hailed a hero after he selflessly rushed to help victims of the Boston Marathon bombings seconds after the attacks.

Costa Rican immigrant Carlos Arredondo has described how, as most people ran for their lives, he vaulted a fence to get to spectators, many of whom had lost limbs, and used his clothes and towels to stanch victims' bleeding.
'I jumped the fence after the first explosions and all I saw was a puddle of blood and people with lost limbs,' he told ABC News. 'I saw adults, much younger than myself -- ladies, men, pretty much everyone was knocked out.'

Mr Arrendono helped one victim, who was missing both his legs and drenched in blood, into a wheelchair that race medical staff had brought and said he kept talking to the man so he wouldn't lose consciousness.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2309762/Boston-Marathon-bombings-Carlos-Arredondo-heroic-anti-war-protester-soldier-son-died-Iraq-pictured-helping-people.html

This is so heartbreaking and inspiring at the same time. Why can't we human beings get along? We are on this earth for such a short time.

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1. Here's a live interview with him on Democracy Now

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/4/16/peace_activist_carlos_arredondo_hailed_as

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2. Than you for the link.

I listened to the first few minutes, but I'm at work. I'll listen to the rest of it at home.

Horrible injuries, similar to what our soldiers have received thanks to the IEDs.

He was there to honor his two sons by watching those who ran in their name, instead he became a hero by helping the wounded. Bless him and his wife, they have gone through so much pain already.