Today is the one year anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing. Dozens of people received life-long, disfiguring injuries. Three died: Krystle Campbell, 29; Chinese national Lu Lingzi, 23; and Martin Richard, 8. The latter was to have started his first season in Little League in a few weeks.
The bombing was undertaken by two Jihadist brothers. The older one was killed after a shootout with police four days later. The younger, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was captured and is awaiting trial in November.
No serious person is claiming there is doubt of his guilt, or that he's mentally or emotionally disabled, or that he acted other than intentionally, knowing full well what he was doing. The defense, if you want to call it that, is that he was following his brother.
The New York Daily News has this retrospective. The pictures are graphic, as they should be. The picture of Dzhokhar's sworn enemy, the scourge of the earth, the Great Satan, follows the break.
Martin Richard
2005 - 2013
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