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Ethiopian Lelisa Desisa Benti was the fastest runner in the 2013 Boston Marathon. The fastest woman was a Kenyan who finished 16 minutes behind him. Nobody, however, remembers the victors in Beantown’s 2013 race. What the public instead remembers is the catastrophic act of terror perpetrated by two Chechen Muslim refugees.
The Boston Marathon is always run on Patriot’s Day, the third Monday in April. Patriot’s Day commemorates the April 19, 1775 battles of Lexington and Concord that marked the beginning of the American Revolution. In the more than two centuries since, April 19 has become a red-letter day in America — a day made red with blood. The first blood spilled during the Civil War occurred on April 19, 1861 in Baltimore. The FBI burned most of a group of Branch...