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Submission text: When I found out what had happened at the Boston Marathon I was across the Atlantic Ocean in Belfast, Northern Ireland. I was bombarded by texts from friends at school asking if they had heard from my roommate, who had been running the marathon and was not responding to any phone calls or texts. I immediately logged online and found live updates of what was occurring. Shocked by what I saw, I was paralyzed by the gruesome pictures and videos, and couldn't grasp that my friends at home were enduring this. It was unfathomable that I was safely abroad in a society filled with conflict while my friends and family were at home where things like this "weren't supposed to happen". One of the pictures that struck me the most was an image on the front page of the Belfast Telegraph, featuring the American flag in front of the rubble and debris from the tragedy.
Crowdsourced submission originally received via the Our Marathon "Share Your Story" page.
