Near the end of the race, two homemade “pressure-cooker bombs” exploded. The explosions caused three deaths and injuries to 300 bystanders.
It was reported as a terrorists attack done by two brothers, 19 and 26 years old, who grew up in the former Soviet Republic of Kyrgyzstan, The latter died during the manhunt and the other stood trial.
According to History.com the Boston Marathon is known as the world’s oldest annual marathon. It’s an American event held to pay tribute to the 13 Colonies who unanimously consented to the 1776 Declaration of Independence from the British Empire, and the 1775-1783 Revolutionary War that followed. The Colonies won that war, and ratified our “Freedom Document” called our U.S. Constitution. The first words recognize those Patriots who won our freedom as— “We The People” —and established our Legacy of Citizenship to “ourselves and our posterity” meaning their descendants for generations to come in perpetuity.
Boston holds the marathon on Patriots Day every year on the 3rd Monday of April.