Boston Globe Columnist Kevin Cullen Says Boston Feels ‘a Mixture of Sadness and Defiance’
Aaron Jasper (L) and Jackie Pickering hold flowers outside the barricaded entrance at Boylston Street near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts April 16, 2013. Two bombs packed with ball bearings tore through crowds near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and triggering a massive hunt for those behind an attack the White House said would be treated as “an act of terror”.
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Boston Globe Columnist Kevin Cullen wrote about the resilience of the city of Boston and its people at the site of the bombings.
For Cullen, what he saw compared to the scene of the bombing in Omagh, Northern Ireland in 1998, and that of the London bombings in July 2005.
He shares his thoughts about the common thread in those tragic events with anchor Marco Werman.
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