A Boston Child Is Cut Down by an Attacker’s Bomb

Eight-year-old Martin Richard was a symbol of young enthusiasm. Michael Daly asks, why is he dead today?

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Published Apr. 17 2013 4:45AM EDT

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All day on Tuesday, the hands of the four-faced clock in Peabody Square remained frozen, at just a shade past 2:50, stopped by a sympathetic soul to mark the time of the bombing and the murder of a little boy.

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He was 8-year-old Martin

Michael Daly

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A Boston Child Is Cut Down by an Attacker’s Bomb

Eight-year-old Martin Richard was a symbol of young enthusiasm. Michael Daly asks, why is he dead today?

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