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Days That Shaped America (2018) Season 1 Episode 3 - Boston Bombing
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00:00It was a plume of smoke, and I was looking right at it.
00:26The most chaotic scene you could imagine.
00:30I could feel myself being propelled into the air.
00:35I knew it was something very, very bad.
00:40It looked like a war zone.
00:42I just couldn't believe it.
00:43There was blood everywhere, and my son is somewhere in this vicinity.
00:47Your heart goes into your throat, you could tell there was a lot of casualties.
00:56I saw the blood coming out of my right leg.
00:58I thought that I was going to die there.
01:00Having to look over and see the bodies there.
01:03It's a vision that I can never get out of my head.
01:09Today is the Boston Marathon.
01:25I wish all the runners great luck.
01:27The weather's actually perfect, starting off in the mid-40s with light winds, and then
01:31we'll be warming up.
01:32The wheelchairs go off by noon, temperature about 50, partly sunny, 3 o'clock, 53.
01:38On Patriot's Day, 2013.
01:40I got up at 4.30.
01:42I was off duty that day.
01:44I was getting ready to run my 18th Boston Marathon.
01:49The Boston Marathon is the most prestigious marathon in the world.
01:52Probably the best day in the city of Boston.
01:54I started at 4.45 a.m., leaving my house.
02:00I was a journalist for the Boston Globe.
02:02For the first time, I was our on-camera host of our live streaming show on the starting line.
02:08The Boston Marathon is a unique day, unlike any other that any city has in the country.
02:15It's a holiday, people are calling sick to work, Boylston Street is full of people going
02:21to bars and parties, and people get drunk.
02:24Everyone will tell you if they're from Boston and say, it's my favorite day in Boston.
02:28I'm a trauma surgeon and a chronic marathoner.
02:31I was on my sixth Boston Marathon.
02:35The weather that day was stunningly gorgeous.
02:40The buzz of excitement in the starting corrals was just different.
02:46I could tell that there was this collective excitement that the weather was going to be
02:53so ideal.
02:54Just a little line.
02:58We arrived in Hopkinton around 6.30.
03:01We hung out for a while, we ate, and we basically talked about the strategy of running the race.
03:09At such a historical race, I just felt like all of us waiting to start were just so excited
03:18to be there and to be part of that on such a perfect day.
03:22I started doing interviews with people.
03:25I talked to a woman from California who was running her first marathon.
03:29I just like to hear their stories.
03:30Have they run marathons before?
03:31Where are they from?
03:32That's kind of my thing.
03:33I'm good at the man on the street stuff, so I'll walk up to anybody, stick the camera
03:37in, and I can usually get them to start talking to me.
03:43I was a registered nurse working in the finish line med tent.
03:46I have been a nurse for 40 years now.
03:49Every year I do the Boston Marathon.
03:51It's something that really helps with my disaster training.
03:55I am a disaster nurse as well.
03:57I have deployed to Hurricane Katrina.
04:00I've deployed to the Haiti earthquake.
04:03So I've had a lot of experience going to disasters.
04:07And that's why I love doing the marathons, because that is my disaster training.
04:11You have so many people come in.
04:14Am I going to have to start IVs?
04:16Temperature's over 104.
04:18These patients are seizing and confused.
04:20You have to be able to, in a split second, know who needs what when.
04:25The med tent I was in is called tent A, and it is just past the finish line.
04:30So we're in that tent by nine.
04:32It takes us maybe an hour to get it all set up.
04:35And I was definitely the one who had been more experienced and had done more marathons.
04:39So it was determined that I would be the IV nurse.
04:42This particular marathon was so special to me because my daughter-in-law, Amy, was running
04:47her very first marathon.
04:49She had gotten back into running after having my granddaughter, Mackenzie.
04:54She trained so, so hard to do this marathon.
04:58So she was there.
05:00Her parents came from Colorado.
05:02They had Mackenzie following along.
05:05Amy's husband, my son Sean, was away on a business trip.
05:09So he would be following the marathon by phone, which is really cool because you can track the runners now.
05:15My other son Scott, he was there in support, and he would be at the finish line waiting for her.
05:24That particular day, I felt great running the race.
05:39The weather was great.
05:40The crowds were screaming and yelling.
05:43The race for the top qualifiers really starts at 10 o'clock.
05:47Once they go, we go to get out of Hopkinton and get into Boston.
05:51I was responsible for getting the winners.
05:54So I had to get there and have the camera running by the time they came across.
05:58After the start, I was just exhilarated.
06:03And I was pretty certain that I was going to have my best Boston Marathon ever.
06:10Thousands coming out for the annual Boston Marathon today, all you runners.
06:18Strong kick gave Ethiopia's Lalisa Desisa the men's win, you see there.
06:23And the women's division Kenyan's Mika Kogo finished in first place.
06:27The energy that really runs through the city on Marathon Monday and the crowds that are there, it just lifts you up and it inspires you so much.
06:39It was my favorite day in the city.
06:42But this year, I turned 45.
06:45Time was ticking away.
06:47I was getting older.
06:48I was still single.
06:50It wasn't that I was depressed.
06:52I just didn't want to celebrate it.
06:54But I had promised my friend Jen that I would be at the finish line to see her come down Boylston Street.
07:00And I was just there to cheer my friend on.
07:15I finished the marathon in 3 hours and 12 minutes, about 3 minutes faster than my goal time.
07:22I felt like I had just conquered the world, you know.
07:25There's nothing quite like the satisfaction of crossing the Boston Marathon.
07:37I went to collect my gear before meeting up with my family.
07:41And we hailed a cab to go home.
07:46I always say, there's no better feeling than seeing that finish line.
07:49That particular day, I did that race in 3 hours and 34 minutes.
07:56So when I was coming down Boylston Street, I felt like a million bucks.
08:00And the crowds were yelling and screaming.
08:02It was the best feeling.
08:04I was waving to my wife, Terry, and my son, Will, who were in the stands.
08:09I also remember when I was crossing the finish line, I did see one of our bomb technicians with his Shepard bomb dog right at the finish line.
08:23We always do bomb sweeps well before the race starts, before people start to come in.
08:29And they continue to sweep the area well, the events going on.
08:33We have a very safe city here in Boston.
08:37My routine after a marathon is go down to the Boston Athletic Club and then socialize with all the marathoners who come,
08:44not only from the U.S., but from other countries.
08:46And we always have a couple beers together and talk about the race.
08:51The first runners that I saw coming in were not all that bad.
08:57They just basically sat down. They needed water.
09:00But other than that, it was very quiet.
09:10My son, Scott, texted me and told me he was standing outside the med tent.
09:15So I excused myself from my position.
09:18I said, I got to go out and talk to my son.
09:19And we were looking at our phones, tracking where Amy was.
09:23And he goes, she should be coming across the line, you know, within the next half hour.
09:29So I said, well, that's good.
09:30Why don't you go down, you know, past the finish line and see if you can get her like right before she crosses or right as she's crossing.
09:39And I left him at that point knowing that he was going down to get a picture of Amy when she was crossing the finish line.
09:46I had positioned myself to the right of the mailbox looking out onto Boylston Street.
10:02I kind of had my arms on the railing just cheering for everybody.
10:07I was in a great position to see that raw emotion of those runners coming across.
10:18The professional runners, they had finished at that point.
10:23What I do is shoot all the runners, mostly the charity runners, the people maybe running their first marathon.
10:28Dream come true.
10:30Tom Kelly.
10:31Great day, great course, great people.
10:33Best day of the year.
10:34The Easter Bunny can do it, anybody can do it, especially with some cracked ribs.
10:39You feel these runners that have done this for the first time maybe, or they're running because a family member passed away and they had to really work hard at this.
10:47And you have to train all winter and you have to sacrifice.
10:50So I can't even describe the emotion of runners that come across the Boston Marathon finish line.
10:57They're just the greatest people.
11:02And what they do, they just are.
11:04Oh my God.
11:31Oh my God.
11:32I was cheering for everybody waiting for my friend Jen to come down Boylston Street.
11:50All of a sudden there was some sort of explosion.
11:56I looked down to the left.
11:58You could see a plume of smoke closer to the finish line.
12:01I really didn't know what was going on.
12:06First thought that got into my head was maybe this was some sort of cannon salute.
12:11So I thought maybe something misfired and it went off early.
12:15Everyone in the med tent basically stalked, got quiet and just looked at each other like, what was that?
12:23I decided to turn to my right and run.
12:27I took probably about two steps and then I saw the two flashes of white light at my feet.
12:34I could feel myself being propelled, I would say, into the ear.
12:44I don't know how high or far, but I knew it was something very, very bad.
12:48When that second explosion went off, that just changed everything because then it's like, okay, this is not an accident, this is deliberate.
12:58The unimaginable is happening right now.
13:02One after the other.
13:04Large explosions, we've had an attack here in the city of Boston.
13:08I'm just trying to figure out, is it over, is it going on, is this it?
13:13Oh my God. My God.
13:17I just remember seeing all the blood, like a river of blood just kind of starting to form and pour into the sidewalk.
13:24The spectators were trying to attend to the wounded as best they could.
13:29But it was just the most chaotic scene you could imagine.
13:33Just blood flowing and bodies that were down on the ground and body parts.
13:40It was a scene that I'll never forget.
13:43When I heard that explosion, I looked to my left and I saw the Boston EMS system just blowing up.
13:54I was told to go out to the finish line with an IV start kit.
13:59And as I got out of the tent is when I started seeing the victims on the ground.
14:07There was blood everywhere.
14:09I saw somebody who obviously had their legs blown off.
14:14And I just know that my son is somewhere in this vicinity.
14:19So I pick up my phone and I immediately speed dialed his number and started screaming into the phone.
14:28I need to know where you are. You need to tell me where you are.
14:31We're going to jump to a developing story right now. There's been an explosion at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
14:36Let's check in with our affiliate to find out what's going on.
14:39On the ride home, I turned my phone on and I realized I had dozens of missed text messages asking if I was okay.
14:49And they were worried about me. And I didn't understand what that was all about.
14:56I had enough of these worrisome text messages that it just led me to believe that something was not right at the finish line.
15:05And I thought it was a good idea to go to the hospital.
15:08Let's get down to Boston. Apparently there's been an explosion at the Boston Marathon. What can you tell us, Matt?
15:17People are hurt. They've stopped the Boston Marathon. And I can see swarms of police officers treating people on the scene.
15:23I count to at least five, six people hurt. But I have a feeling there are more.
15:30I was relaxing in the hot tub at the Boston Athletic Club. Detective Cecil Jones came in and told me that two bombs just had gone off in Copley Square.
15:42First thing I thought, there couldn't be bombs. That type of activity doesn't happen here in our city.
15:47I was in disbelief. I was like, oh, geez. You know, I had just run the marathon. I only lived a mile away, ran home.
15:55I told my wife at that point I had to get into work, put on my uniform, and headed for Copley Square.
16:02I knew I had to get to that scene to help my department find out what particularly happened and get those who were responsible.
16:12Our early reports are that a half a dozen people have been injured, but these are very preliminary reports.
16:18So obviously a very terrifying scene. Very early on, we're still trying to gather more information, and we'll bring that to you as soon as we get it.
16:25I went black for probably just a few seconds. When I kind of came to, I was on the sidewalk, right at the edge of the curb.
16:44My left leg was extended out in front of me. My right leg was tucked under me. I could see the blood coming out where my knee was. It was coming out rather quickly.
16:56I instantly saw a severed foot in front of my left leg on the ground. It had a little white sock on it. And I had to think to myself, what did I wear for shoes today? Did I wear socks?
17:12Because I wasn't sure if that was my right foot or not. At this point, there were people running past me.
17:25I thought I was going to die right there by myself with people running past me and not helping.
17:30It's hard to tell exactly the extent of injuries that we're looking at right now, but it does look like a number of EMS teams working on multiple patients there at the scene.
17:51I knew there were two bombs. I was panicking, which is not what I do as a disaster nurse. I don't panic.
17:58I remember just looking down at the victims on the ground and I'm just quickly assessing, but I'm not necessarily assessing their wounds.
18:09I'm actually looking at their faces to make sure it's not my son.
18:13I could not function until I knew that he was all right. Luckily, before I had gotten too much further, he texted me back and he told me he was all right.
18:22Okay, now let me get to work.
18:25Every victim we went to, they had a bystander putting a tourniquet on or holding pressure or just having the victim's head on their lap.
18:39There was one woman whose leg was literally turned around. All the victims, just blank steers, just staring up. They looked like they were looking through you.
18:54As I was laying on Boylston Street, I could feel something dangling on my right side. I then instantly knew that that was my foot that was dangling.
19:10I just decided that I needed to stay conscious. There were a group of firefighters that came on scene. They put me on a backboard and then they straightened my leg on the street. It was awful.
19:30I work in sports. I go to the Super Bowl, the Stanley Cup, I go to Red Sox games. But when those explosions went off, suddenly I turned into a war correspondent.
19:45I decided to call Matt Pepin. He's my editor at Boston Duck. And I couldn't get through it. The phone just kept dialing and dialing and trying to get through. The phones were all jammed.
20:05And I finally got through to him and he said, you know, you talk and I'll write the story. Tell me what happened. And so I told him, told him what I saw.
20:18There's blood everywhere. Blood and all the faces of the victims are being carried out right now on stretchers with people. I saw someone who lost their leg. This is unbelievable. It's going to be some kind of a terrorist attack with two bombs that went off.
20:32The police officer finally approached me and told me to get out, get off the course. I went back to the media center. You know, my colleagues knew. They know I'm on the finish line. So they knew they could see it. In my face that I'd seen it.
20:56I arrived at the hospital somewhat simultaneously as the first wave of patients were arriving. I looked over several of the patients. It was blast and fragment injury to both legs of many, many patients.
21:20I've been deployed many times as a combat surgeon and as the almost identical pattern of injury. I commonly saw from improvised explosive devices in the Middle East. There had been terrorism on Boylston Street.
21:36I've deployed to confront the terrorists on their own land to prevent exactly this kind of event from happening in my country. Accepting that this had happened was not an easy process for me.
21:55In my tenure at the MGH, this was probably the worst set of injuries we had ever seen in a single day.
22:02Getting word from some of the hospitals that individuals have already been brought into the emergency rooms and they are being treated.
22:18This is very close to several different hospitals. For example, Mass General Hospital, which is one of the nation's most prestigious hospitals, is quite close to this scene.
22:29I was one of the last people to be removed from Boylston Street. So my transportation to the hospital was actually in the back of a paddy wagon.
22:39I asked Mike, the firefighter who helped load me in, who had my head, if I was going to die, and he told me no, it was a flesh wound.
22:53I kind of knew it wasn't a flesh wound, but he was trying to make me feel better and that things were going to be okay.
23:02I just kept breathing through everything, praying that we got to the hospital sooner than later.
23:12At that point, it was so quick. We had gotten the victims off the street and they either had gone in by ambulance or they were in the med tent.
23:23I found out that Amy was stopped at mile 25, so I knew she was not at the bomb site.
23:36The radio calls are going into headquarters to get additional resources there, because they have to now figure out what took place there.
23:44They have to contain the area, treat it like a crime scene. There's a number of things that have to take place simultaneously, but their initial response is driven by people in need.
23:58When I arrived back at the finish line, I walked out up onto Boylston Street, and that's when I seen the destruction.
24:06It was surreal. It looked like a war zone. To see the barriers blown apart, the band is blown apart, and then having to look over and see the bodies there.
24:19You know, it's a vision that I can never get out of my head.
24:23I sort of felt overwhelmed with a lot of anger to think that somebody would injure those young children and kill them.
24:37That also someone would blow up our city, you know, and especially blow up our marathon.
24:44You know, we locked down that area for probably around 20 block radius.
24:48We had bomb technicians and dogs sweep in that area, but we also had our crime scene response.
24:55Starting to process the scene and try to get to the heart of what type of device went off that day on Boylston Street.
25:04We all knew we had one mission, to find out who did this.
25:08We are awaiting official word from law enforcement to get some indication of what caused these explosions.
25:19We are told that at least four people are now in the emergency room over at Massachusetts General Hospital.
25:26That, according to a spokeswoman for the hospital, no word of their conditions right now.
25:31I finally arrived to the ER of Mass General Hospital.
25:40I kind of started to hallucinate going in, and I still had the feeling I was going to die.
25:48When I first arrived in the emergency department, a female bombing patient arrived.
25:53Both legs were injured. The right leg looked more injured than the left.
26:01This patient had lost about two-thirds of her blood volume.
26:05It was clear to me that this patient was dying and needed to get to the operating room.
26:14Her right leg was injured so badly that there was no technical way to be able to reconstruct it.
26:23There was only one decision that was the right decision, and that was to amputate her right leg.
26:30I found out sometime after the initial operation that this patient's name was Roseanne Cedoya.
26:43We're continuing to monitor and respond to the situation as it unfolds.
26:48The American people will say a prayer for Boston tonight,
26:50and Michelle and I send our deepest thoughts and prayers to the families of the victims
26:55in the wake of this senseless loss.
27:05So I think it was close to 6 o'clock, the Boston police said they had now let us leave.
27:10And we were all just standing there just looking at each other like, now what do we do?
27:17It's a feeling I sometimes feel in many disasters that I go to.
27:25I haven't finished. My job's not over.
27:29And that's exactly how I felt then. We didn't fix everything. We're not done.
27:34I'm texting my family and I found out what hotel they were all starting to gather at.
27:38I said, I'm on my way. Amy showed up and I got a great hug from her.
27:45Trying to get my son Scott there and it took so, so long for him to show up.
27:50And he finally, when he finally showed up, that's...
27:54That's the moment that I lost it. I just saw him, grabbed him and just started weeping uncontrollably.
28:07Like I don't, you know, to the point where you were just, your whole body was shaking.
28:11And that's what he kept saying. I'm all right. I'm all right. I'm all right.
28:14You know, but that's the moment that it's all over. It's done.
28:20And everybody's okay.
28:22Tonight, every police agency in the state of Massachusetts is sending help to Boston, as is the federal government.
28:32Bostonians are being told to stay indoors and if they have to go out, to avoid large crowds.
28:41I was in charge of a group of 30 offices and about eight sergeants.
28:45I was responsible for collecting, analyzing all types of evidence at every type of crime scene.
28:49We had a big task ahead of us. The scene was a capsule of time of what happened at that particular moment.
28:56People were enjoying the day, having a drink, having food, and the bombings went off and everything just stopped in time.
29:03So the drinks were still half full, the food was half eaten.
29:06There was baby strollers. I always remember seeing baby strollers just left abandoned.
29:11We went to the medical tent. The tent itself was a large crime scene because the victims were brought through there.
29:16And as they were brought through there, the bits and pieces of the bomb itself fell out of them.
29:20There were shards of metal from a pressure cooker and BBs and stuff like that.
29:24So we realized there was a pressure cooker bomb that injured people.
29:27In the medical tent, there was a makeshift morgue set up. We had to recover the first victim there.
29:35Crystal Campbell was the first girl. Beautiful girl. She was already deceased.
29:41I always remember her face because she reminded me of my daughter.
29:44We went to the scene of the second blast where Martin Richard and Lindsay Liu were murdered.
29:52Lindsay Liu, she's a graduate student from China, going to Boston University.
29:56And about 10 feet away, Martin Richards, he was a sweet little boy.
30:01Just coming there with his family to watch the marathon and cheering people on and then the bomb explodes.
30:07His sister lost her leg. His mother was, one of her eyes was damaged, her her hearing.
30:12How could some monsters do this to our city and to these people?
30:17Just steal their resolve to try to find out who was responsible.
30:23Here's the information. This is a direct quote.
30:26We have a number of active leads and some good early progress in the forensics analysis,
30:31but no identified suspects to my knowledge.
30:34The next morning we knew how much damage was done.
30:38I think we had close to 265 individuals who were hurt, close to 20 who lost limbs.
30:47And obviously we had three killed that day.
30:51We didn't have a whole lot to run on other than someone blew up our city and blew up our marathon.
30:57We were going to get who was responsible for that act.
31:00Within 24 hours of processing the scene, detectives pulled video from multiple locations and they could see two suspects.
31:10What made them noticeable in the video was you could see them actually placed a backpack on the ground.
31:19The video shows exactly where those backpacks exploded.
31:24So we have their video, now we just need to identify who they are.
31:35When they brought me out of that coma, Dr. King is the one who told me that he had amputated part of my leg.
31:50Even in the very early minutes of that conversation, I could sense her will to overcome and not have her life be defined by an event.
32:09He had to go back in and do some more cleaning of the wound, but he wasn't sure if he would be able to keep me below the knee or if he would have to then eventually make me above the knee.
32:21I figured, do what you have to do.
32:26We tried to preserve her knee, but it became obvious during her second operation that her knee was also too badly damaged along with the tissue around it that it would also have to be sacrificed.
32:40At this point, you can't make your leg grow back, so if that was the worst outcome of what had happened to me, I was going to deal with it.
32:52On Wednesday, we viewed the video that clearly pointed to two individuals who were acting out of the ordinary.
33:01We watched White Hat let the backpack slip off his shoulder.
33:10We watched as the first bomb went off.
33:13When everyone was looking to the left, in horror, White Hat started to move to the right.
33:19I was disgusted by it. I was horrified by it. We were in consultation with the FBI, the ATF, and my Commissioner Davis determined whether the video of the two suspects should go out to the public.
33:38Commissioner Davis wanted the videos out there, so if anyone recognized these individuals, we could get them quickly.
33:44The opposing view was, if we were to put the videos out, would they go on the run?
33:53Today, we are enlisting the public's help to identify the two suspects.
33:57As you can see, suspects one and two appear to be walking together through the marathon crowd on Boylston Street in the direction of the finish line.
34:05Everyone looked at these young kids and thought, how can anyone so young have such hatred in their heart that they would want to blow up?
34:14And injure those families.
34:16I think everyone sort of said, wow, they look like any college kid in this city. At least that's what I believed.
34:25Breaking news. In Boston, an MIT campus police officer has been shot and killed.
34:31Authorities have cordoned off the area and an intensive search for the gunman is underway.
34:35The police presence is reportedly very heavy.
34:37Late Thursday, I got the call that Officer Collier was assassinated at MIT.
34:45He was sitting there in his cruiser. The subjects approached him. They shot him and tried to take his gun, but they didn't get it, and they fled.
34:53And then they hijacked a student in a Mercedes Benz.
35:04The victim of the carjacking, he escaped from the suspects. He told the responding officers that the two suspects who carjacked him were the Boston bombers.
35:12And that set everything in motion. We knew who we were looking for and dealing with.
35:21Officers from Watertown spotted that car. They followed it, and the pursuit began.
35:25Our officers with Watertown were in pursuit of two individuals who were shooting and throwing explosives out the window.
35:44We stopped the subjects at Watertown, then a shootout occurred.
35:47Tim Lens and I have died at Watertown. He was shot by the police, and his brother Jahas and I made his escape at that time.
35:57He actually ran over his brother with a Mercedes, and that's when the big police search started trying to find him.
36:06There is a manhunt going on right now on the streets of Boston.
36:09The city literally shut down. Here's what we know. Right now, a door-to-door search is underway in the Boston suburb of Watertown as police look for the younger brother, 19 years old, believed to be extremely dangerous, possibly armed with explosives.
36:24The whole region was in lockdown, the whole city. The transit was stopped. People were asked to stay indoors.
36:30The manhunt placed the entire city on edge.
36:33They knew he was injured, so they knew that he would be looking to go to a hospital.
36:38So Newton Wallsley Hospital was put in lockdown. They actually had National Guards, we had the trucks, we had the big machine guns, guys all over the place.
36:46This had never happened, ever, in the city. While working on the crime scene, just looking out across the city, you could hear Pinderup. It was so quiet. It was like a ghost town.
36:55It was like a ghost town.
37:00Watertown Control to Watertown 468. Sir, I have a call from 67 Franklin Street. There's a boat in the backyard, there's blood all over the cover, and the IP reports there's a person inside the boat.
37:14I was down in Fall River, looking for the second suspect. And a Watertown officer said, hey, we just got word that there's a fella in a boat behind a house on Franklin Street.
37:28At that point, we proceeded quietly down to Franklin Street.
37:33When we got to the location, we could see clearly that we had someone in the boat.
37:41We have movement.
37:45The FBI SWAT team took the lead. They asked me if they could throw flashbangs into the boat, smoke grenades in the boat.
37:54Negative on movement. Negative movement.
37:57And then when nothing else had worked, they informed me that they were going to begin to negotiate with the suspect.
38:05And finally, he was taken into custody.
38:08Nineteen-year-old Johar Zenev, wanted for the deadly attack at the Boston Marathon, was driven away by the police just moments ago after being cornered in a boat in the back of a house in Watertown.
38:18It was the best feeling I ever had in my career. The moment the word went out over the radio, the crowds were out, flags were waving. It was almost like we had just won the war.
38:31Today, the city of Boston can breathe a sigh of relief knowing that two perpetrators who caused so much pain and anguish are no longer a threat to our personal safety and to our communities.
38:50We always looked at terrorism as, you know, in other parts of the world, but we have to be vigilant and realize that people don't love our way of life, our freedom. We're always going to have to protect that and stand up for it.
39:01I was in Massachusetts General Hospital for a week.
39:15Mike Materia, the firefighter, had come to the hospital and met my family, but never came in to see me.
39:22So when my family and my friends would come in and visit me, I would hear about this firefighter.
39:26And my mother said, Roseanne, the firefighter, he's really cute.
39:31And in the back of my mind, I'm thinking, Mom, seriously, I was just blown up and you're trying to set me up with this firefighter.
39:40But I felt this sense of security with the amounts of time that Mike would come visit me.
39:49Four weeks after the bombing, I was released home from rehab.
39:54I kind of think at that point, we were both kind of feeling the situation out in regards to our friendship, our connection and what was going on.
40:05We both had feelings for each other, but we didn't want it to be because of what we went through.
40:10And so it took us a little bit of time to kind of start letting people know that we were dating.
40:16I guess my family and friends saw right from the beginning the connection that he and I would have in the future.
40:24He's my fireman and the love of my life.
40:26And we will soon be husband and wife.
40:30In 2014, at the marathon, there was a lot of chatter about how people were feeling and how safe they felt or didn't feel.
40:49Some reluctance of maybe being there and whether it was a mistake or not and was it going to happen again.
40:58But all the runners put on running shoes and showed up.
41:03The BAA decided to offer people that were affected by the marathon bombing a chance to run in 2014.
41:12I invited to run the marathon.
41:14Pretty happy to do that because it was physically painful and my feet were killing me.
41:18But I did say one thing, I said no matter what happens, when I get to Boylston Street, I don't care if my legs fall off, I was running down Boylston Street.
41:25That was pretty emotional, running down Boylston.
41:29You know, I felt just a sense of accomplishment.
41:34The courage that I saw was just absolutely amazing.
41:39I think we proved to the world how resilient this city was, how we all came together.
41:45And I think that's what makes the city of Boston a great city and a special city.
41:51My life now is completely different than it was in 2013.
41:57Would I like my leg back?
42:00Yes, but I found Mike Materia. Mike Materia found me.
42:04And just can't imagine the friendships and the people that I have in my life not being there.
42:11I think about all of the support that I've received from people near or far.
42:16It really just shows how much good there is in this country.
42:20When you see survivors rise from the ashes of despair, it makes me appreciate the resiliency of our country and how fortunate we are to be Americans.
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