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joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 03:13 PM Apr 2013

Cowards

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Less than 10 miles from the finish line of the Boston Marathon, where three people were killed and more than 170 injured in dual blasts on Monday, lies a billboard with a one-word message: "Cowards."

The billboard, located off the I-93 expressway that crosses the city, belongs to the local chapter of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) union. The chapter, Local 103, usually uses the billboard for union-related and community messages but that changed Tuesday morning, less than 24 hours after the two bombs exploded.

Since then, the electronic billboard had rotated every 10 seconds between the "Cowards" sign and another that reads, "Pray for Boston."

It was Local 103's way of shouting out our feelings of anger: Cowards," business manager Michael P. Monahan told

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/cowards-billboard-lights-boston-skyline-wake-blasts-172005463--abc-news-topstories.html
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