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Healing at Street Level in
Boston, Baltimore & Beyond
By John M. Borders, III
Americans are in pain. While riding home on I-93 South, I passed the Electricians Union Hall, a local
branch of the AFL-CIO. A digital message board over the building projected a message that touched
thousands of stuck in rush-hour traffic. “Today, justice Prevails.” Being a Bostonian, you instinctively know
it is a reference to the jury’s decision that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found guilty of over thirty charges
relating to the Boston Marathon Bombing two years ago.
It has taken two years for the bombing victims and their families to feel a little relief. Still, these victims and
their families must endure another month of hearings while the jury decides between life in prison and
the death penalty. Personally, I’ve seen enough death in t