--John Lennon,
"Imagine"
My partner Betsy came into the kitchen with tears in her eyes yesterday morning. "Oh that poor boy. He had such a sweet face. What happened to him? Such a tortured soul!!"
I quickly learned that she, like many of us, had been on the web following the events in Boston, trying to make sense of the senseless acts of violence that had erupted. Like most of us, she a felt a deep grief as the drama unfolded. Like few of us, perhaps, she felt a deep compassion--not only for the victims of the horror--but for the two tortured souls that somehow believed that violence was the "right thing to do." The "poor boy" of her lament, was the younger brother, Dzhokar Tsarnaev. She had just seen his photograph.
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