America will endure- this too

As we continue to debate about gun control since the massacre of Newtown, the news about two bomb blasts were carried by all news outlets. The Boston Marathon, an international event, with 96 countries representing, came to a screeching halt. Lelisa Desisa, 23 years, from Ethiopia 2:10:22 and Rita Jeptoo,32 years, Kenya 2:26:25 winners of this Marathon (men and women) were robbed of their day's glory. Tomorrow's(today"s as I am writing this) headline will talk about the mayhem. Everyone I heard on the cable channel were in unison stating that we will not be stopped. We will endure. The perpetrators will not succeed. So true. But are we still feeling secure. So easy to empathize when tragedy strikes the next door neighbor. But what if , we were the one's to experience the tragedy. What if our near and dear ones didn't say good bye or did not have an opportunity to give us a hug or we didn't let them know we love them.

My mind keeps racing to separate the loss from an assault weapon and the one that caused the death and injury from this event. I hear people including the President saying that we are Americans first,and not divided as Democrats or Republicans as we grieve for the loss of those who died and pray for those who are fighting for their survival. I thought this was true when the children, innocent than those who participated in this marathon, gave up their lives, not by choice as those who took part or stood by the bleachers to cheer to be there.

The guns were legal used in Connecticut tragedy, but the bombs were not. The outcry is universal, not so in the situation when a deranged individual mowed down the future of this great country. Flags at our Congress were flying at half mast within hours but not so quickly when the innocent were butchered. Mr.Wayne LaPierre, face of the NRA believes that this type of tragedy will not end by regulating guns or banning assault weapons. Many of the Republican Senators and Democratic Senators from the Red States have sold their souls. But this tragedy somehow brings all the emotions and a reason to stay united with the President in sharing the grief with this country. What a farce.

Mr. Wayne Coffey said in his piece in NY Daily News, "The Boston Marathon began Monday morning with a 26-second silence to honor the memory of the 26 victims of Sandy Hook. Who knew there would be more victims before this race — one of the great sporting spectacles in this country, the centerpiece of a civic celebration known as Patriots Day all around Boston — would be over? That a day that is all about a salute to the human spirit would turn into one more ode to evil?". He continued, "This is not about the rules that were hair-split and deconstructed with almost comic solemnity in Augusta over the weekend, and the tempest over Tiger Woods and his illicit drop. This is about rules that frame our personal boundaries, our own private sense of well-being, the schools and parks and cities where we are sure we can go to learn and play and live". "So the rules change again for us in life, and in sports, four months and a day after Sandy Hook. They change in the usual unspeakable fashion, with death and dismemberment and despair and wall-to-wall television coverage, delivering high-definition horror to the whole world, all of which is exactly what descended on Boylston St. a little before three o’clock Monday afternoon, when the most famous marathon in the world was rocked by two bombs that left at least three dead and more than 100 wounded, and left every one of us with one fewer place to feel safe".

"The men’s winner of the Boston Marathon Monday was Lelisa Desisa Benti. The women’s winner was Rita Jeptoo. The losers were all of us".

I couldn't have done it any better. Thanks Mr. Coffey for helping to reflect on my emotions.