Post by mesquite on Jan 4, 2015 6:23:44 GMT -5
Liz Norden has five children. She lives in a small home near Stoneham, Massachusetts, near Boston. She works as a nanny.
On the morning of the Boston Marathon bombing, Liz Norden's sons JP, who was 33 at the time, and Paul, 31, were cheering on a friend near the marathon's finish line.
JP arrived in the hospital clinically dead. Paul was in a coma for several days.
They were burned on more than 50 percent of their bodies, missing eyelashes and eyebrows and with burst eardrums.
They each lost their right legs.
The brothers underwent 50 surgeries between them -- with more still to come for JP -- before their long and painful rehabilitation.
Afterwards, the brothers wrote the book "Twice as Strong" about their ordeal.
No longer able to work in their previous professions as a roofer and a truck driver, the two look to the future with ambitions to open a roofing company.
"It's difficult for them, but they don't complain. They have accepted what happened to them and honestly, they have accepted it better than I do."
- 'I want him dead' -
Neither JP nor Paul plan to attend the trial, claiming that it won't change anything for them, but their mom feels differently.
Their mom is taking off work to attend every day of the trial. "I am so bitter, so angry and they are not... I am sad to see how much it has changed for them" the mother said
I understand this kind of hate. The older I get, the more things I find hateable.
Hate is a drug. It can make me feel more powerful while I am experiencing it. But afterwards I feel all icky. I am ashamed I did it.
I feel like the ball in an age old ping pong game between good and evil.
To those who nearly always see the good in the world I just want to say "Hang on," we need you so much.
On the morning of the Boston Marathon bombing, Liz Norden's sons JP, who was 33 at the time, and Paul, 31, were cheering on a friend near the marathon's finish line.
JP arrived in the hospital clinically dead. Paul was in a coma for several days.
They were burned on more than 50 percent of their bodies, missing eyelashes and eyebrows and with burst eardrums.
They each lost their right legs.
The brothers underwent 50 surgeries between them -- with more still to come for JP -- before their long and painful rehabilitation.
Afterwards, the brothers wrote the book "Twice as Strong" about their ordeal.
No longer able to work in their previous professions as a roofer and a truck driver, the two look to the future with ambitions to open a roofing company.
"It's difficult for them, but they don't complain. They have accepted what happened to them and honestly, they have accepted it better than I do."
- 'I want him dead' -
Neither JP nor Paul plan to attend the trial, claiming that it won't change anything for them, but their mom feels differently.
Their mom is taking off work to attend every day of the trial. "I am so bitter, so angry and they are not... I am sad to see how much it has changed for them" the mother said
I understand this kind of hate. The older I get, the more things I find hateable.
Hate is a drug. It can make me feel more powerful while I am experiencing it. But afterwards I feel all icky. I am ashamed I did it.
I feel like the ball in an age old ping pong game between good and evil.
To those who nearly always see the good in the world I just want to say "Hang on," we need you so much.
