Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings that took the lives of three people and injured hundreds of others. To honor those affected by the tragedy, Boston held an emotional ceremony near the race’s finish line in the middle of the city around the time that the bombs went off a year ago today.
The police offer seen raising the American flag in the video above is MBTA officer Dic Donohue, who was shot and badly injured during the Watertown firefight between police and the two bombing suspects. The flag that is being raised is the one that was presented to then-Boston mayor Tom Menino after the bombing’s investigation closed.
Among those in attendance for the somber ceremony were Menino, Vice President Joe Biden, and countless victims & first responders who were on the scene as the tragic events unfolded last year.
[WBZ Boston]
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