Marines who triumphed over injuries bring hope to Boston Marathon attack victims
This is such a heart-warming story:
Marines who triumphed over injuries bring hope to Boston Marathon attack victims
By Eric Moskowitz, Globe Staff
Looking up from her hospital bed through tears, she is at first morose and mournful, six days after losing both of her legs below the knee.
“I can’t do anything right now,” Celeste Corcoran says, voice sodden.
That is why the two Marines are here: Between them, they lost three legs and part of a hand in Afghanistan in separate bomb blasts in 2010, their agony then just as unimaginable, their futures just as uncertain.
But the Marines brim with vitality now — smiling, laughing, living examples of overcoming pain and loss like this, standing before Corcoran atop artificial legs purposefully exposed beneath shorts.
“Right now, I’m telling you — you know, with all my heart — you are going to be more independent than you ever were,” says Gabe Martinez, drawing Corcoran in with a reassuring voice, and with the power of his presence.
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