Boston Endures
Written by Stephanie Younger
This week has been an endurance test for Boston. The entire city has run an emotional marathon of sorts – the initial horror and adrenaline of the finish line explosions; the uneasy groove we found during the middle days of the week as we waited for more information; then the long, tense hours of the immense manhunt for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev after he and his brother held up a 7-11, murdered MIT police officer Sean Collier, carjacked someone, and generally wreaked havoc through Watertown. When the announcement came over the police scanner feeds that Tsarnaev was in custody there was a pause, trained into us by the constant misreporting of the past four days, and then the exhale of relief to end all exhales of relief when the Boston Police Department confirmed that they had him, he was alive, job well done by Boston’s finest.
