The Boston Bombing

If you haven't heard of the Boston Marathon bombing by now, you must be living under a rock. I found out about it through Facebook, and then saw it on the news, and then talked about it in school, and then with other people. So what I am trying to get at here is...you should obviously know about it. But, just in case you don’t, I decided to write you a blog with all of the pertinent information about the case.

I couldn’t find any of the articles with the initial news about the bombing but I remember there were at least three people killed, one of them a four-year old boy, and over 112 people severely injured. The police did not waste much time in identifying the bombers and so the two bombers turned out to be two brothers from Russia. One of the brothers was twenty six years old and was killed while being contained. The brother that was killed was apparently the mastermind of the operation. The seventeen year old was the other brother, named Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. He was captured and admitted to the hospital for injuries that he received during the chase. He is now talking about all of the details of the bombing from his hospital bed. If you want to read more, I found two articles on CNN about this subject that are more specific on the brothers.

I think that the bombing seemed completely unnecessary. That may be a bad choice of words but there has been so much violence in the world lately that it all needs to stop. Not long after the bombing, we heard about the (accidental) factory explosion in Texas and not long before that there was the shooting at the elementary school. Everyone needs to take up yoga or something because violence is not the answer to all of their supposed problems. It just makes everyone more nervous than they ought to be. (327)