BOSTON — Adrianne Haslet-Davis, the professional ballroom dancer who lost part of her leg three years ago today in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, next week will become the first bombing survivor to run the storied race.
Haslet-Davis, a race spectator on April 15, 2013, is one of 17 survivors who lost limbs from the terrorist attack that took place that day, killing three people and wounding 260 others.
After the Battle at North Bridge in Concord, while the British retreated and began their march back to Boston, some Massachusetts men found a wounded redcoat left behind. They did a terrible thing: They scalped him and left him to die.
Word about the atrocity reached the British, and along with their bloody exposure to American snipers and to our side's hit and run attacks, the British understandably concluded that they were fighting a new and vicious kind of enemy.
