Partiots Day; the Boston Marathon bombings................ (1 Viewer)

[Warrior]

Watched this documentary last night on HBO about the Marathon bombings back in 2013.

It was very well done, told the overview of the events that day and the days that followed, the main focus was on a husband and wife, a mother and daughter and two brothers who were all at the marathon, all suffered injuries that day.

It really hit home how when these things happen, we focus on the event for a number of days, then revisit it each year on the anniversary, but for those affected by it, they live with it the other 364 days a year.

Really sad how all of their lives are forever changed and they'll never be the same, these tragedies continue to happen and people continue to be adversely affected by them while life goes on for everyone else.

Makes you stop and think how fragile life is, how there are no guarantees in life and how each day is a blessing, also puts all the things we get worked up over seem so small, meaningless and trivial.

The last five minutes of the program hit me pretty hard; well worth seeing if you can catch it.

 

[Larry Allen]

I agree George ... that was a well done documentary.

It moved along well and blended actual footage and voice over to give you a good timeline of events. Like you mentioned, many of these victims live with this everyday. I don't know if I could endure one week what some of those poor people will have to endure everyday for the rest of their lives. The loss of limbs ... :redface2:; family and so much more.

Interesting footage inside Walter Reed Hospital.

I believe that there is a movie coming out about the that bombing ...??^&confuse.
Mark Wahlburg is staring, and is a natural as he is a Dorchester native.

LaRRY

 

[hotel3alpha]

George,

Spot on with the documentary. In this lighting fast media news bubble we live in it almost feels like you can't keep up. The Documentary was sobering and shocking. I just now wish that Rolling Stone would put the survivors on the cover for the victims as they did for that knucklehead kid. Sad man...sad.

John from Texas

 

[Warrior]

George,

Spot on with the documentary. In this lighting fast media news bubble we live in it almost feels like you can't keep up. The Documentary was sobering and shocking. I just now wish that Rolling Stone would put the survivors on the cover for the victims as they did for that knucklehead kid. Sad man...sad.

John from Texas

Hey John, nice to see you posting again.....................hope you are well.

Again; the last five minutes will hit you where you live to say the least...................

 

[hotel3alpha]

Hey John, nice to see you posting again.....................hope you are well.

Again; the last five minutes will hit you where you live to say the least...................

George,

Why thank you kind sir, you the second person to welcome me back! I am well, just a couple of MRI's later...but hey my front yard is looking good. I had NO IDEA about the last 5 minutes and it was absolutely crushing. My God I cannot imagine a worse situation...the smugness of it all (via the knucklehead(s)) is just grosteque. I absolutely loathe those who hurt innocents. LOATHE!!!

A side note, in Texas if he was on death row, his number would come up in about 10 to 15 years. In this day and age that is about how fast one gets stuck with the needle. I don't know the time frame for federal, but I can imagine it is slow. Not that it makes things any better, but you catch my drift.

Terrible man, just terrible.

John from Texas

PS: I caught the doc about 20 minutes in and will re-watch it again from the beginning.

 

[Warrior]

George,

Why thank you kind sir, you the second person to welcome me back! I am well, just a couple of MRI's later...but hey my front yard is looking good. I had NO IDEA about the last 5 minutes and it was absolutely crushing. My God I cannot imagine a worse situation...the smugness of it all (via the knucklehead(s)) is just grosteque. I absolutely loathe those who hurt innocents. LOATHE!!!

A side note, in Texas if he was on death row, his number would come up in about 10 to 15 years. In this day and age that is about how fast one gets stuck with the needle. I don't know the time frame for federal, but I can imagine it is slow. Not that it makes things any better, but you catch my drift.

Terrible man, just terrible.

John from Texas

PS: I caught the doc about 20 minutes in and will re-watch it again from the beginning.

The worst part of the documentary is when they show the cameras outside the restaurant where the second bomb went off; you see the crowd react to the sound of the first bomb going off, then the second bomb goes off and people hit the ground like bowling pins from the blast.

What a horrible, terrible thing; standing around having a good time one minute, ending up on the ground with life threatening wounds the next.

Unbelievable.

 

[The Military Workshop]

Saw the movie today. Was not planning to see this in the cinema but another movie thought was on had not started. Glad I did. Even though I knew what happened it was still compelling.

Interesting aspect was the debate between FBI and Boston PD over releasing the photos of the culprits when they did not actually know who they were. FBI did not want to and PD wanted to get the public looking for them. Also the bit about not Mirandising the wife when she was picked up. The classic police dilemma of do you go by the book when trying to get information in such cases.

The Uni students who did not report their knowledge of the culprits was shocking but clearly they were too concerned with drug smoking and computer games.

With these type of factual movies always interesting to see the comments by the real participants and what happened to them.

Good to see Boston rallying after the event and must have been an emotional movie for Bostonians to watch.

 

[villagehorse]

Interesting to see the lead up to this tragic event and the aftermath. A lot of genuine footage and real life victims. Always amazes me how people expect the protection of the rules of society to apply when they are caught, before which, anything goes. Good movie, thought provoking. Robin.