I appreciate your post Thomas, but this A.M. my heart is heavy because I could not prevent what happened.
My brother wrote last night to tell us all that only his oldest daughter would think running in the Boston Marathon was no big deal. She did, however, finish well before the explosions and was not in the are of the finish line.
I guess I’m glad I didn’t know she was running. I assumed she was busy elsewhere and not in any danger. In this case ignorance was, indeed, bliss.
I know this is a no-politics zone, but you can’t expect to be perfect every time, or even many times when the CinC thinks the response to such a travesty should be a call for justice rather than a declaration of war.