Obama hails Boston as 'one of the world's great cities' at memorial
Source: The Guardian
Barack Obama delivered a defiant message to the perpetrators of the Boston Marathon bombing on Thursday, declaring that if their intention was to "intimidate us, to terrorize us, to shake us from the values that make us who we are as Americans" then they had "picked the wrong city".
In an address at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in the South End of Boston, just 13 blocks away from the site of Monday's carnage, Obama was at times sombre, at times almost tearful. But the thrust of his reflection was uncompromising – that violence would not overcome the spirit of what he described as "one of the world's great cities".
He derided those who planted two bombs close to the finishing line of the marathon where the devices would be certain to cause most human devastation as "small, stunted individuals who would destroy rather than build, and think that somehow that makes them important". In a year's time, he predicted, "on the third Monday in April, the world will return to this great American city to run harder than ever, and to cheer even louder, for the 118th Boston marathon. Bet on it!"
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