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Boston Strong 2014

(CNN) -- A moment of silence at the finish line, the tolling of church bells and a solemn flag-raising ceremony capped the first anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing on Tuesday.

  Under a steady rain on Boylston Street, where two homemade bombs last April 15 marked the deadliest terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11, scores gathered in the personification of a slogan that captured the country: "Boston Strong."

 The terrorists, Biden said, "wanted to make America afraid so that maybe, maybe, we'd begin to change our ways. That's the objective -- the very soul of who we are. They figured if they instill enough fear, we will change. And it infuriates them that we refuse to bend, refuse to change, refuse to yield to fear.

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"You are Boston strong. But America is strong. ... That's what makes us so proud of this city and this state. What makes me so proud to be an American is that we have never, ever yielded to fear. Never."

At the marathon, "the whole world witnessed ordinary citizens doing extraordinary things" to help each other, the vice president said.

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"America will never, ever, ever stand down," he said. "We are Boston. We are America. We respond, we endure, we overcome and we own the finish line."

'Boston strong'

     My husband Kirk and I own Koi Villa Water Garden Center located in Coventry, RI.  We have been selling garden flags for years and shortly, after that attack I contacted one of my flag distributors and asked for a special order.  The first flag I chose was the “American Flag with the eagle proudly flying under it” and had “Boston Strong” printed on it.

    The flags arrived in June and we mailed them to all of our clients who lived in Massachusetts so they could proudly fly them on the 4th of July.

     When we re-opened for the season and we hung up the American Flag and we put out the Boston Strong flag again it just brought back the memory of it again. And then we watched and heard on TV about it being the first anniversary of the attack. When I read the article above (which I didn’t copy all of it) I thought that perhaps somewhere someone may want to raise money and this flag is stunning and would make a fantastic fund raiser.

     If anyone is interested they may contact me for further information. Our telephone is 401.392.0255 or email @ koilady2@aol.com.

 

 

 

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