Newtown runners, families safe after Boston Marathon bombings
Source: Yahoo News/MSNBC
As has been the case at other major sporting events, a 26-second moment of silence was held to remember the 26 victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings prior to the start of Monday's Boston Marathon. Victims of the Newtown, Conn., massacre were also honored along the course with a special marker at the 26th mile.
That marker was not far from where a pair of bombs exploded, killing three people and wounding 144 others. But while some of the families of the Newtown victims were reportedly seated in a VIP area near the finish line, none were reported injured.
Six runners ran the race as part of Team NewtownSTRONG, a scholarship fund benefiting the siblings of the victims from Sandy Hook Elementary School—with each mile dedicated to a different victim.
"In the first 20 miles, we're honoring the 20 Sandy Hook first-graders [who were killed]," Laura Nowacki, a spokesperson for Newtown Strong, told WBUR radio before the race. "When we crest Heartbreak Hill and we're coming back towards Boston, we run the final six for our six fallen educators."
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They were running the 26 miles in honor of the 26 victims of assault weaponry.
The last mile was named for the gun tragedy by the race organizers.
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These poor people have been through enough. 
