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“And then the bomb went off”: Boston columnists react to Marathon explosions

Boston has a tradition of great city columnists. Here’s a sampling of what some of them are writing in today’s editions of the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald.Kevin Cullen in The Boston GlobeThis is how bad this is. I went out Monday night and bumped into some firefighters I know. They said one of the dead was an 8-year-old boy from Dorchester who had gone out to hug his dad after he crossed the finish line. The dad walked on; the boy went back to the sidewalk to join his mom and his little sister. And then the bomb went off. The boy was killed. His sister’s leg was blown off. His mother was badly injured. That’s just one ­family, one story.Gerry Callahan in The Boston HeraldContinue Reading… Read More