Only a few days after the fatal bombings at the Boston Marathon, the mood in Boston is “somber,” according to residents of the city and marathon runners from across the world who have yet to leave for home.
“A lot of the high anxiety has dissipated,” Darryl Palmer, a local security manager, told msnbc, “but I think there are still a lot of people that are still curious to find out exactly what happened. I don’t think that people have ever felt that they were back to normal in any way…I’m not sure if we’ll have a normal summer. This is something that is probably going to stay in our minds at least for the next six months, maybe a year. Probably every time they have the marathon.”
The days after the marathon were clear and warm. The famed Public Gardens, only a few blocks from the bombing site, was crowded with Bostonians undeterred by fear of subsequent attacks.
“I don’t [feel scared]. If I did, then whoever did this would win, and you just gotta keep going,” said Heath McKay, a marketing director who works in the Hancock Tower, which overlooks Copley Plaza and the bombing site. “That’s what we do: we’re Bostonians.”
“I’ve never been where there was more national guard and police and security,” said Anita Scruggs, whose husband Sam competed in the marathon. “I’ve thought about whether that was foolish, but no, I feel like were surrounded by security.”









