Distressed Army vet missing since watching Boston bombings on TV
by Stacia Willson
KENS 5
Posted on April 18, 2013
SAN ANTONIO -- A man who was seeking help for post traumatic stress disorder has gone missing from his family after watching footage of the Boston Marathon bombings.
On Monday, the Rory Lester, Jr. and his aunt were visiting a friend at San Antonio Methodist Hospital when they saw the report on TV. The 28-year-old Army veteran asked his aunt for her car keys so he could go outside and cool down.
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Friday, April 19, 2013
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Goodness did not yield to evil on Patriot's Day
I am from the Boston area and I have to tell you that I have never been prouder of my home state and to say, "I am a Bostonian!" (If you hear me talk, that will be obvious.) President Obama in in Boston right now talking about how so many people rushed to help the wounded, doing whatever they could to help even if it was just to comfort with a hand on a shoulder.
That is the strength of my "neighbors" because they refuse to yield to evil.
Whenever they do good no matter what was done to them, there is evidence of God. Whenever they are more worried about someone else, again, evidence of God shines through.
You've read about some of the heroes over the last few days but there will be even more because they are already raising funds for the wounded. Many of them have lost limbs. Some of them may never work again. This the people of Boston understand. This the people of Boston will never forget. As the media goes back to covering other stories, like what happened in Texas last night, the people of Boston will be standing up for the people harmed by evil but not destroyed by it.
They will recover. It was Patriot's Day and Bostonians didn't yield to the fight from freedom so long ago. Now they will remember the day when they once again said they will overcome what is wrong by doing what is right!
That is the strength of my "neighbors" because they refuse to yield to evil.
Whenever they do good no matter what was done to them, there is evidence of God. Whenever they are more worried about someone else, again, evidence of God shines through.
You've read about some of the heroes over the last few days but there will be even more because they are already raising funds for the wounded. Many of them have lost limbs. Some of them may never work again. This the people of Boston understand. This the people of Boston will never forget. As the media goes back to covering other stories, like what happened in Texas last night, the people of Boston will be standing up for the people harmed by evil but not destroyed by it.
They will recover. It was Patriot's Day and Bostonians didn't yield to the fight from freedom so long ago. Now they will remember the day when they once again said they will overcome what is wrong by doing what is right!
Fertilizer Plant Explosion In Texas Levels Buildings
Fertilizer Plant Explosion In Texas Levels Buildings, Claims As Many As 15 Lives
Huff Post
(VIDEO/PHOTOS/LIVE UPDATES)
By JOHN L. MONE and MICHAEL BRICK 04/18/13
WEST, Texas — Rescue workers searched rubble early Thursday for survivors of a fertilizer plant explosion in a small Texas town that killed as many as 15 people and injured more than 160 others. The blast left the factory a smoldering ruin and leveled homes and businesses for blocks in every direction.
The explosion in downtown West, a small farming community about 20 miles north of Waco, shook the ground with the strength of a small earthquake and could be heard dozens of miles away. It sent flames shooting into the night sky and rained burning embers and debris down on shocked and frightened residents.
"They are still getting injured folks out and they are evacuating people from their homes," Waco police Sgt. William Patrick Swanton said early Thursday morning. He added later, "At some point this will turn into a recovery operation, but at this point, we are still in search and rescue."
Swanton said authorities believe that between five and 15 people were killed in the blast, but stressed that is an early estimate. There is no indication the blast was anything other than an industrial accident, he said.
Among those believed to be dead: Three to five volunteer firefighters and a single law enforcement officer who responded to a fire call at the West Fertilizer Co. shortly before the blast. They remained unaccounted for early Thursday morning.
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Huff Post
(VIDEO/PHOTOS/LIVE UPDATES)
By JOHN L. MONE and MICHAEL BRICK 04/18/13
WEST, Texas — Rescue workers searched rubble early Thursday for survivors of a fertilizer plant explosion in a small Texas town that killed as many as 15 people and injured more than 160 others. The blast left the factory a smoldering ruin and leveled homes and businesses for blocks in every direction.
The explosion in downtown West, a small farming community about 20 miles north of Waco, shook the ground with the strength of a small earthquake and could be heard dozens of miles away. It sent flames shooting into the night sky and rained burning embers and debris down on shocked and frightened residents.
"They are still getting injured folks out and they are evacuating people from their homes," Waco police Sgt. William Patrick Swanton said early Thursday morning. He added later, "At some point this will turn into a recovery operation, but at this point, we are still in search and rescue."
Swanton said authorities believe that between five and 15 people were killed in the blast, but stressed that is an early estimate. There is no indication the blast was anything other than an industrial accident, he said.
Among those believed to be dead: Three to five volunteer firefighters and a single law enforcement officer who responded to a fire call at the West Fertilizer Co. shortly before the blast. They remained unaccounted for early Thursday morning.
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Combat-medicine lessons from Iraq, Afghanistan applied to Boston
Combat-medicine lessons from Iraq, Afghanistan applied to Boston Marathon wounded
BOSTON (SHNS)
April 16, 2013
Improvised explosive devices caused carnage on the street of an American city this week, but after more than a decade of grim experience treating U.S. troops maimed by such weapons in Iraq and Afghanistan, many of the emergency workers and volunteers along Boston's Boylston Street knew how to react.
They included nurses and medics who had served as National Guardsmen trained in front-line first aid, and a peace activist, Carlos Arredondo, who had lost his Marine son, Alexander, in Iraq in 2004.
"You can see (the bomb) was like an IED,'' he said, sweeping his arm low to the ground where the shrapnel flew as he spoke to reporters soon after helping to evacuate a man with two severed legs to an ambulance.
Civilian trauma experts say the insights gained from keeping severely wounded troops alive have quickly taken hold in civilian emergency departments and ambulances across the U.S. Many of them are convinced that lessons from military medicine are a major reason why more civilians are surviving gunshot injuries in the U.S., even as the total number of shootings has been increasing, according to figures kept by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Now, the expertise has shifted to bystanders at a footrace hit by bombs, the Boston Marathon.
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BOSTON (SHNS)
April 16, 2013
Improvised explosive devices caused carnage on the street of an American city this week, but after more than a decade of grim experience treating U.S. troops maimed by such weapons in Iraq and Afghanistan, many of the emergency workers and volunteers along Boston's Boylston Street knew how to react.
They included nurses and medics who had served as National Guardsmen trained in front-line first aid, and a peace activist, Carlos Arredondo, who had lost his Marine son, Alexander, in Iraq in 2004.
"You can see (the bomb) was like an IED,'' he said, sweeping his arm low to the ground where the shrapnel flew as he spoke to reporters soon after helping to evacuate a man with two severed legs to an ambulance.
Civilian trauma experts say the insights gained from keeping severely wounded troops alive have quickly taken hold in civilian emergency departments and ambulances across the U.S. Many of them are convinced that lessons from military medicine are a major reason why more civilians are surviving gunshot injuries in the U.S., even as the total number of shootings has been increasing, according to figures kept by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Now, the expertise has shifted to bystanders at a footrace hit by bombs, the Boston Marathon.
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Father of Camp Pendleton Marine hailed as hero in Boston Marathon bombings
If you do not know who Carlos Arredondo is, when he learned his son had been killed in Iraq, he set fire to his truck. He became an advocate for ending the occupation of Iraq. He was also attacked for his efforts.
Father of Camp Pendleton Marine hailed as hero in Boston Marathon bombings
Carlos Arredondo at race to honor Marines
ABC News 10
Michael Chen
April 17, 2013
BOSTON - The father of a fallen Camp Pendleton Marine is being hailed as a hero for his attempts to help the wounded after the explosions near the Boston Marathon finish line.
Carlos Arredondo's efforts were one of the most enduring images from the tragedy.
His hands shaking and the sleeves of his shirt stained with blood, Arredondo is heard in a YouTube video describing the chaos soon after the bombings.
"Then all you see was people without the limbs," said Arredondo.
A short time earlier, an Associated Press photographer captured an image of a determined Arredondo ushering an injured man to an ambulance.
Arredando, the father of a Marine killed in Iraq in 2004, had been passing out flags in honor of Marines when the bombs went off. He ran towards the explosion, ahead of police, and jumped a fence to get to the injured.
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