On Monday April 15, 2013 the day of the Boston Marathon there were 2 explosions that resulted in 3 people dead and 264 injured. When I heard about this I was so shocked, I was sitting at home with my 2 children and watching the Fox 25 News like I usually do. All of the sudden there was breaking news saying that 2 bombs had just gone off at the marathon in Boston. At first I didn't want to believe it, I tried to convince myself that maybe a small gas pipe blew and everything was fine, but then it was confirmed that they were in fact bombs. I then got tons of phone calls from family and friends telling me to watch the news and asking if my fiancé Joe was okay, due to the fact that he is in the army and they were wondering if he and his unit got activated, which they had. I never thought something like this would happen.


What the city, the nation and the world can learn from the Boston Marathon bombing is complacency is dangerous, you should never stop paying attention to your surroundings because the world is such a dangerous place, we should always keep in the back of our minds that unspeakable acts of hatred and violence can and do take place, also the war on terror is far from over.



In order to become stronger from this atrocity and move on from it, we as a people must not show the world that this is going to keep us down in any way. We must make sure next year's Boston Marathon is even bigger and better than this year's, and embraces a stronger sense of pride and love for the city of Boston than ever before. We must stay strong in times like these and make sure the world audience sees how professional and competent our authorities are in dealing with messes like this one, and we must also provide the world with the truth that no matter what happens we as Americans will always overcome anything that anyone tries to throw at us to slow us down.
I feel like the next step we should take is to bring swift justice to those responsible for this hateful statement. Whatever we ultimately decide to do to these cowards it should come fast and hard, as we certainly don't want people to think they can commit a crime on our sacred soil and get away with it with a light sentence. Our criminal justice system is a fair one, but it should by no means appear soft to the world or else I fear that more events like this one will be inevitable in the months and years to come.
I learned that the people of Boston, both citizens and the public safety officials alike, are way prouder and stronger than I ever imagined, and that's an amazing thing to be able to claim. I also learned that no matter how long we attempt to eradicate terrorism and the extremist beliefs of Muslim Jihadists, it is near impossible to do so, because whenever we make any progress in eliminating the higher-ups or organizational structures of certain clans or sects of these animals another one always seems to pop up somewhere else at some time or another. The world is an extremely dangerous place, and although unfortunate, it's a fact that there will always exist in the world a number of people or groups of people who want to do us harm. We cannot, by any means, ever become comfortable and think that events like these won't happen again, because they probably will.