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bigtree

(85,915 posts)
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 01:50 PM Apr 2013

Second Victim Identified


Report: Second Victim Identified

The second victim in Monday's Boston Marathon bombing is reportedly 29-year-old Krystle Campbell, according to her hometown's website InsideMedford. Campbell was a native of Medford, Massachusetts and a 2001 Medford High School graduate. No other information is known at this time, and the identity of the third person killed in the blast is still unkown. Eight-year-old Martin Richard of Dorchester, Massachusetts was also killed in the attack. Runner Jeff Bauman Jr., whose image after the accident circulated widely yesterday, is also thought to have undergone leg amputation surgery.

read: http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2013/04/16/second-victim-identified-in-marathon-bombing.html


Hordon Health released the following statement on Facebook:

“Please take a moment to read… Light a Candle, Say a Prayer for our loss…

Hordon HEALTH lost a member of its extended family yesterday at the Boston Marathon. Her name was Krystle Campbell, and she died instantly yesterday at the bombings. Krystle could easily have been described as the salt of the earth, but her complexity demands more…

Close friend of Yann Kumin, once a coach for the Boston Institute of Football and HordoN HEALTH, and friend of Marc Hordon, Krystle was seldom caught not smiling, and not expressing her opinion. She was beautiful, she was loud, and everyone loved her for it. Along with the million dollar smile came head to toe freckles and gorgeous bright red hair, connecting her Irish roots and kid-like manor; it was easy to feel ten years younger around her, no matter who you were. She had tremendous passion and energy, and Krystle attacked life with vigor and excitement.

Krystle you will be missed not only by those who knew you, loved you, and cherished you the most, but you will be deeply missed by this world as a whole. Your character, your fortitude, your conviction is something that this world desperately needs and now will forever miss.

Rest in Peace dear child. You are safe. You will always be loved.”

read: http://insidemedford.com/2013/04/16/medford-woman-killed-in-marathon-bombings/


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Second Victim Identified (Original Post) bigtree Apr 2013 OP
Made me cry. nt clarice Apr 2013 #1
+1 get the red out Apr 2013 #5
Very sad. sinkingfeeling Apr 2013 #2
. myrna minx Apr 2013 #3
What a beautiful tribute to a dear soul... arthritisR_US Apr 2013 #4
Looking at graphic photos... cilla4progress Apr 2013 #6
I just realized AtheistCrusader Apr 2013 #8
These images are so new to us - to me, cilla4progress Apr 2013 #9
No less human than our government and Presidents, (that's us by extension) as they order death from jtuck004 Apr 2013 #11
Bless Krystie Campbell's beautiful Cha Apr 2013 #7
Found another pic of her.... Spitfire of ATJ Apr 2013 #10

cilla4progress

(24,587 posts)
6. Looking at graphic photos...
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 02:43 PM
Apr 2013

more so and in a way I never have before. Not sure why. Perhaps because I just had a birthdayand at 58, I feel some sort of morbid, or maybe humane? need to face some things I've always avoided. Anyway, doesn't matter.

The point I wanted to make is this: in looking at these photos of fundamental human pain and loss, I can only imagine the perpetrator/s also looking at them. What is he/she or they thinking? Are they proud of what they wrought? Do they feel some sort of success, gratification, power?

I can only conclude the evil that provoked these acts is less than human. It is the only way I can make sense of it, as a human myself.

And yes - we can extend this to the entire universe of sentient beings: in additional to deliberate acts of violence intended to kill and maim, around the world (I'm talking to you, largest military budget of the next 10 nations or so), what about the harm we do in the waste and exploitation, in every moment?

If lives here are precious, and they are, so very, very precious, aren't lives everywhere? What do people in Iraq and Afghanistan, for example, think about our American grieving?

No conclusions here, only questions.

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
8. I just realized
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 03:01 PM
Apr 2013

Someone I thought was laying on the ground in shock/blood loss in one of the photos, was apparently her.

Man oh man, this whole thing just sucks.

cilla4progress

(24,587 posts)
9. These images are so new to us - to me,
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 03:12 PM
Apr 2013

though not unprecedented.

Images of war against civilians on American soil. Terrifying and traumatic.

Hopefully it isn't something we can expect, over time, to "get used to."

I can't help thinking about families and communities around the world where this is more commonplace. One of the docs interviewed last night said it is reminiscent of war scenes and injuries, and they weren't really prepared for the extensiveness of it, the immensity presented novelly to them.

 

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
11. No less human than our government and Presidents, (that's us by extension) as they order death from
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 03:29 PM
Apr 2013

the sky, amid reports that a full third of the people killed are un-targeted civilians. As you allude to.

George Bush's daddy,along with millions of cheering taxpayers, sent Timothy McVeigh for his training before he murdered 168 people in my hometown.

btw - If you want to find out what bombers think, read the words and stories published words before he was executed, totally unrepentant. (The guy in the office next to ours was retiring, visiting the SS office with his wife that morning. His office locked, his papers lay on the desk for weeks until his heirs came to collect them). McVeigh feared being killed by snipers, not for his own life, but because he was afraid his "message" wouldn't get out before he was executed. He suggested that the 168 people who died would barely be missed (That is worth learning from. I hope, if they catch the real perpetrators of this one, that no one else is killed in someone's selfish search for personal retribution or revenge).

Bush's son has given us tens of thousands of of potential suspects, soldiers trained in creating such IED's. Along with the ability to see others as mere targets. In other words, as less than human...

Obama is carrying on the family tradition...

Then again, this is a country where we beat and murdered men, women, and children who simply wanted fair wages for the past couple hundred years. We made those who ordered those acts very wealthy, and continue to do so.

My biggest problem is I think the perpetrators are all very human, which gives me great pause.


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