Remembering the marathon
Rain and powerful winds pounded the Memorial Church this afternoon as people streamed in and out of its pews to remember and pay respect to those saddened and hurt by the Boston Marathon bombings exactly one year earlier. The weather was perfect that day, Patrick Rooney ’14 remembered. He had run the 2013 Boston Marathon as part of the Harvard College Marathon Challenge. Rooney had finished the race and was five blocks away when the first bomb detonated. Tuesday, he sat inside Memorial Church “to reflect on being here today when so many couldn’t.” “There was just so much confusion,” he said. “I just remember afterward the very big outpouring of community support, the love and care from Harvard and from Lowell House.” None of his fellow Harvard runners was hurt. Madeline Cooper ’16 had finished the race with her sister. Cooper was raised in Ashland, near the marathon’s starting point. “I grew up watching...