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Post-Boston marathon bomber standoff – a tale or two for those in lockdown

Locked down in her downtown Boston apartment on Friday during the manhunt for “Suspect #2,” my best friend from high school reports that she was getting irritated with CNN’s reference to “Suspect #1” going down in a blaze of glory. She found herself  castigating her television set for glorifying this guy. Then she realized, hey, I can actually chew out CNN in person because the anchor is right down the street. So she and her dog walked down Beacon Street and struck up a conversation with the CNN anchor, getting a somewhat frosty reception.

And then there was my niece somewhere in Watertown/Cambridge who reported on Facebook that after her neighborhood was given the initial (albeit short-lived) ok to leave their homes, she took her dog out for some fresh air and started hearing gunshots. Back into lockdown. A few hours later, Suspect #2 was in custody. Amen for that.

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Boston Lockdown

Sad to see that my post from a few days ago  – –  wondering whether  there’s a lockdown in all of our futures – – has proven true for the people of Boston and neighboring Cambridge and Watertown.  Having visited  Boston last fall and as a former resident of Somerville and Brookline, I have a clear picture in my mind of the real neighborhoods and people affected. But it still feels not quite real, like a trailer from one of those ridiculously over-the-top violent Hollywood movies where Morgan Freeman is the president and Bruce Willis or Sly Stallone or even Arnold is coming to the rescue. Not this time. Hoping the very real police and FBI  capture this second Chechen brother alive and find out more about what is behind all this terror and mayhem in Boston so we can try to prevent even more.

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