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Jack Marmorstein on Boston Marathon Bombing

A WMRA-area runner was in the 2013 Boston Marathon, and much to friends' relief, he promptly said on Facebook: "I'm fine."   He's familiar with the finish line area and his modestly self-described "little sliver of insight" about the attack has gone national.   His observations are in the Slate.com article "The Bomb Site Was a Stage.

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In the Facebook note, he included a pre-bombing photo showing a race staging area on a street lined with school busses and barricaded with police sawhorses and a lifeguard chair (tagged, as if foreshadowing, with a NO LIFEGUARD ON DUTY sign).  The bus-lined street has since appeared in a few official news photos, but after the attack and with the lifeguard chair gone.

Terry Ward was a WMRA producer and announcer from 1997 to 2016.