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'CAPTURED!!!' Boston police announce Marathon bombing suspect in custody
By Chelsea J. Carter and Michael Pearson
CNN
updated 9:17 PM EDT, Fri April 19, 2013
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
NEW: The bombing suspect is in custody, police say
NEW: "CAPTURED!!! The hunt is over" police tweet
Investigators find ''significant amount of homemade explosives,'' a police official says
Slain suspect was wearing explosives when he died, source tells CNN
(CNN) -- The suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings was taken into custody Friday night, bringing to an end a massive manhunt that virtually shut down the Massachusetts capital amid warnings the man was possibly armed with explosives.
Law enforcement officials told CNN that authorities have confirmed the man in custody is 19-year-old Dzhokar Tsarnaev, who escaped a shootout with police in suburban Watertown that left his older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev -- the other man wanted in the bombings -- dead.
The younger Tsarnaev was in need of undisclosed medical care, the officials said.
Friday, April 19, 2013
Veterans to discover no man is an island but can live on one
Family to make island a veterans retreat
April 17. 2013
By GRETYL MACALASTER
Union Leader Correspondent
By 2014, Bruce Montville hopes to have this family-owned island on Bow Lake developed into a retreat for veterans and their families. (click link to see place)
STRAFFORD - The Montville family has owned a 10-acre undeveloped island for many years off the shores of Bow Lake.
As Bruce Montville, founder and CEO of LifeWise Community Projects in Hampton, began to learn of the plight of returning veterans - some troubled with traumatic brain injury, physical disabilities or challenged in returning to everyday life - he began envisioning the island as a retreat for those veterans.
He talked to his family and earned its blessing to begin development of a veterans family island retreat.
The idea is still in the planning stages, but already Montville has received buy-in and support from the N.H. State Veterans Committee, local businesses and other volunteer groups.
Landscape architect Jonathan Halle, who designed the New Hampshire State Veterans Cemetery in Boscawen, has agreed to create a conceptual design for the retreat.
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April 17. 2013
By GRETYL MACALASTER
Union Leader Correspondent
By 2014, Bruce Montville hopes to have this family-owned island on Bow Lake developed into a retreat for veterans and their families. (click link to see place)
STRAFFORD - The Montville family has owned a 10-acre undeveloped island for many years off the shores of Bow Lake.
As Bruce Montville, founder and CEO of LifeWise Community Projects in Hampton, began to learn of the plight of returning veterans - some troubled with traumatic brain injury, physical disabilities or challenged in returning to everyday life - he began envisioning the island as a retreat for those veterans.
He talked to his family and earned its blessing to begin development of a veterans family island retreat.
The idea is still in the planning stages, but already Montville has received buy-in and support from the N.H. State Veterans Committee, local businesses and other volunteer groups.
Landscape architect Jonathan Halle, who designed the New Hampshire State Veterans Cemetery in Boscawen, has agreed to create a conceptual design for the retreat.
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Irish soldier gets property tax bill for barracks?
Soldier sent €427 property tax bill for an entire barracks
ELAINE KEOGH
18 APRIL 2013
Independent
A SOLDIER has been landed with a €427 property tax bill for an entire army barracks.
The unexpected bill from Revenue was addressed to the soldier at Cathal Brugha Barracks in Dublin where he once was based.
In it, the Defence Forces member, who is now stationed in Aiken Barracks in Dundalk, was told that records showed he was the owner or person liable for "local property tax (LPT) on the residential property".
The Department of Defence confirmed "the barracks is owned by this department".
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ELAINE KEOGH
18 APRIL 2013
Independent
A SOLDIER has been landed with a €427 property tax bill for an entire army barracks.
The unexpected bill from Revenue was addressed to the soldier at Cathal Brugha Barracks in Dublin where he once was based.
In it, the Defence Forces member, who is now stationed in Aiken Barracks in Dundalk, was told that records showed he was the owner or person liable for "local property tax (LPT) on the residential property".
The Department of Defence confirmed "the barracks is owned by this department".
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Armless Iraq vet offers words of courage to Boston bomb victims
'Defining moment:' Armless Iraq vet offers words of courage to Boston bomb victims
By Bill Briggs
NBC News contributor
April 18, 2013
An open letter from an armless Iraq War veteran to the amputee victims of the Boston Marathon bombing has gone viral thanks to his succinct, stirring words which offer a crisp portrait of post-injury life and unbridled hope.
His written depiction of human resilience is entirely within character: without arms, hands or fingers, Pete Damon, a Boston-area resident, later became a painter whose works have been displayed in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol.
“Although it's undeniably tragic, you will recover,” Pete Damon posted on his Facebook page this week. “In fact, this will be a defining moment in your life. In the coming days, weeks, and months, you will find a strength and resilience you never knew you had.”
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By Bill Briggs
NBC News contributor
April 18, 2013
An open letter from an armless Iraq War veteran to the amputee victims of the Boston Marathon bombing has gone viral thanks to his succinct, stirring words which offer a crisp portrait of post-injury life and unbridled hope.
His written depiction of human resilience is entirely within character: without arms, hands or fingers, Pete Damon, a Boston-area resident, later became a painter whose works have been displayed in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol.
“Although it's undeniably tragic, you will recover,” Pete Damon posted on his Facebook page this week. “In fact, this will be a defining moment in your life. In the coming days, weeks, and months, you will find a strength and resilience you never knew you had.”
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Boston bombings bring chaplains into new ground
They say Chaplains have the ministry of presence.
This is from Webster
Definition of PRESENCE
The job of a chaplain is supposed to take care of people. That is it. We are not supposed to care about anything but the people in need. When I am called, lately way too often, I care about what they need and what I can do for them to ease their pain and give them comfort. I don't care about what happened to me at the grocery store or like Wednesday when my dog almost broke my finger. It swelled up to twice the size before I could get my engagement and wedding band off that has been on my hand for 29 years. The doctor had to cut them off. I had an emergency call to take and the veteran didn't want to hear my problems. I didn't even try to tell him because his were bigger. I don't care I can't pay my bills when I respond to an email. They are my job no matter what.
They also don't want to hear me tell them they go to the wrong church, need to go back to church, or anything that has to do with division in religious groups. Being a Chaplain isn't supposed to be about anything other than the person in need. If done right, it can make all the difference in the world. Friends of mine are in Boston right now doing just that. Putting others first. While I don't know Sister Maryanne Ruzzo, there are many like her and this is a good story to read.
This is from Webster
Definition of PRESENCE
The job of a chaplain is supposed to take care of people. That is it. We are not supposed to care about anything but the people in need. When I am called, lately way too often, I care about what they need and what I can do for them to ease their pain and give them comfort. I don't care about what happened to me at the grocery store or like Wednesday when my dog almost broke my finger. It swelled up to twice the size before I could get my engagement and wedding band off that has been on my hand for 29 years. The doctor had to cut them off. I had an emergency call to take and the veteran didn't want to hear my problems. I didn't even try to tell him because his were bigger. I don't care I can't pay my bills when I respond to an email. They are my job no matter what.
They also don't want to hear me tell them they go to the wrong church, need to go back to church, or anything that has to do with division in religious groups. Being a Chaplain isn't supposed to be about anything other than the person in need. If done right, it can make all the difference in the world. Friends of mine are in Boston right now doing just that. Putting others first. While I don't know Sister Maryanne Ruzzo, there are many like her and this is a good story to read.
Boston bombings bring chaplains into new ground
Washington Post
By G. Jeffrey Macdonald
Religion News Service
Updated: Friday, April 19, 3:21 PM
BOSTON — Two days after the Boston Marathon bombings, Boston Medical Center chaplain Sister Maryanne Ruzzo was checking on staffers who’d been caring for the injured when she received a page. A bombing victim wanted to see her.
The bedside was fraught with worry. A woman in her 30s had lost a leg to amputation as surgeons deemed it unsalvageable. Still suffering multiple injuries, she was now heading into surgery again, knowing she might wake up with no legs at all.
Ruzzo stood among the woman’s parents and siblings and did what she does best: listen. She heard their fears, including concern for the woman’s husband, who was being treated at a different hospital and who also might lose a leg to amputation. Then she prayed.
“Other people might not want to feel the pain and say,’Oh, it’s going to be fine,’” said Ruzzo, the Archdiocese of Boston’s coordinator of Catholic services at BMC. “We just try to be present and listen to them. ... I prayed for the surgeons and the nurses.”
In a week when Boston hospitals cared for more than 170 bomb victims, staff chaplains were suddenly in great demand. They moved calmly from emergency departments to waiting rooms and employee lounges, offering a compassionate ear and much-needed comfort to anxious patients, family members and staffers.
“People think,’OK, here’s the guy who kind of represents the universe, or God, or the infinite or eternity,’” said Sam Lowe, a Quaker staff chaplain at BMC.
“If I stand there and I’m able to hear their story ... it reconnects them to the rest of humanity,” at a time when they’re apt to feel terribly alone.
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