Everyone's been flooded with information on the attack during patriots day, it's consequences, the hunt, how it all ended. So I guess it's not very useful to write a summary of the events because that can be found pretty much everywhere. I wanted to get a few things out of my chest though, so this is merely a subjective post (I guess all of my posts kind of are anyways):
My new hometown grieved this week; it also carried out a fast and effective hunt of the culprits: Two brothers that had emigrated years ago and were living in Cambridge. When the details on them and their background were released I couldn't be sadder. I'm sad for the younger brother, he's just 19, should be getting into
college, going out with girls (or boys) and not blowing up people.
Last night, after the kid was caught, the bars opened, people went to
the streets and celebrated. I'd like to think most were celebrating
the fact that they don't need to live in fear. I was happy to be able to get out of my room and breathe some fresh air. I went to the store and got some beer.
In Malden (the suburb where I now live), one day before they shut down the city, a Syrian woman was harassed on the street. A guy screamed at her and called her a terrorist. The story was published on The Boston Globe's website (I just went to check it and they took it out, but it's still on the Facebook page where I originally saw it [I'm printing the screen]).
Malden is an immigrant neighborhood: there's lots of Arabs, Chinese, Indians, Brazilians, etc. I like it here, food is good. I really hope this harassment incident was a one time thing. This is the land of the free after all.
