Boston Marathon Bomb Victim Pens Powerful Letter To Terrorist: “You Are A Coward”
11 years ago

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It’s been almost two years since an explosion near the finish line at the Boston Marathon and the ensuing search for those responsible rocked the entire nation, and one of the victims has penned a powerful letter to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, in which she calls him a coward.

Rebekah Gregory survived the 2013 attack, but she lost much of her left leg as a result of the explosion. Hours after she testified against Tsarnaev in his trial this past Wednesday, the Houston native posted the following letter to her Facebook profile. It has garnered national media attention and nearly 20,000 likes. As I’m sure you can imagine, it is incredibly powerful.

From her Facebook page:

Dear Dzhokhar Tsarnaev,

My name is Rebekah Gregory. We don’t really know each other and never will. But over the last two years, I have seen your face not only in pictures, but in almost every one of my nightmares. Moments before the first blast, your stupid backpack even brushed up against my arm, but I doubt you remember because I am no one to you. A complete stranger. And although I was merely just a blip on your radar, (someone that happened to be standing 3 feet from your designated “good spot” for a bomb), you have been so much more to me. Because you have undoubtedly been my source of fear since April 15th, 2013. (After all, you are one of the men responsible for nearly taking my child, and for the permanent image embedded in my brain of watching someone die.) Up until now, I have been truly scared of you and because of this, fearful of everything else people might be capable of.

But today, all that changed. Because this afternoon, I got to walk into a courtroom and take my place at the witness stand, just a few feet away from where you were sitting. (I was WALKING. Did you get that?) And today I explained all the horrific details, of how you changed my life, to the people that literally hold YOURS in their hands. That’s a little scary right? And this afternoon before going in, I’m not going to lie..my palms were sweaty. And sitting up there talking to the prosecution did make me cry. But today, do you know what else happened? TODAY…I looked at you right in the face….and realized I wasn’t afraid anymore. And today I realized that sitting across from you was somehow the crazy kind of step forward that I needed all along.

And I think that’s the ironic thing that happens when someone intends something for evil. Because somehow, some way, it always ends up good. But you are a coward. A little boy who wouldn’t even look me in the eyes to see that. Because you can’t handle the fact that what you tried to destroy, you only made stronger. And if your eyes would’ve met mine for just one second, you would’ve also seen that what you “blew up” really did BLOW UP. Because now you have given me (and the other survivors) a tremendous platform to help others, and essentially do our parts in changing the world for the better.

So yes…you did take a part of me. Congratulations you now have a leg up…literally. But in so many ways, you saved my life. Because now, I am so much more appreciative of every new day I am given. And now, I get to hug my son even tighter than before, blessed that he is THRIVING, despite everything that has happened.

So now…while you are sitting in solitary confinement, (awaiting the verdict on your life), I will be actually ENJOYING everything this beautiful world has to offer. And guess what else? I will do so without fear….of YOU. Because now to me you’re a nobody, and it is official that you have lost. So man that really sucks for you bro. I truly hope it was worth it.

Sincerely,

Someone you shouldn’t have messed with

#bostonstrong

Fuck terrorism.

[via Facebook]

Image via YouTube

  2. Bbn_Cats

    Hope that mother fucker gets the chair and feels every volt of electricity that passes thru his body. Fucking pussy.

    11 years ago at 12:57 pm
  4. Lou Sanus

    I may get lapped for this, but I don’t think we should kill him. It’s been proven time and again that these rag-head savages have no regard for their own lives, and would gladly give it up to harm innocent and hardworking people. Instead, we should put him in a good ole super max with a 6’8 man rapist and let him have his way with him all day and night. Then he would experience the meaning of true fear, the same fear he forced upon the Boston marathons victims.

    11 years ago at 1:08 pm
    2. Bbn_Cats

      Lou, I know what you’re saying and I agree with the sentiment. My only problem with keeping ass holes like this alive is that it costs roughly 32 thousand dollars a year to house an inmate. Why should tax payers waste our money keeping this goat fucker alive when he was trying to kill us in the first place? Public hanging would cost about $8 for the rope.

      11 years ago at 1:24 pm
      1. ShmeepStar

        .357 magnum FMJ’s cost $0.55 a pop if you BYOG and buy them in bulk, and work like a charm. But no, imprisoning murderers and terrorists for 33k a year works just fine too…

        11 years ago at 1:40 pm
      2. FratDrunkandStupid

        Because in the long run it ends up costing more to invoke the death penalty with appeals and whatnot

        11 years ago at 1:41 pm
      3. StarShieldandLamp

        In my opinion I would just put him to death. Who cares if it’s what he actually wants or not. He doesn’t deserve to take up the space, time, and money in our correctional facilities. Kill him and erase his name from the history books.

        11 years ago at 2:20 pm
      4. DipFreeOrDie

        Originally from the liberal state of Mass, but it actually is over $42k a year to keep an inmate locked up a year. I love the constitution to death, and I might be bias, but fuck this scumbag. He doesn’t deserve my taxpayers money. Give Him to the victims families to take care of him.

        11 years ago at 10:37 pm
    3. Lou Sanus

      Look at my reply that posted as a comment for so reason, probably the intern, fuck you intern.

      11 years ago at 1:58 pm
    4. GrandpaHammerDong

      I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again, terrorists are FAF and TFTC. Don’t care about women, that’s frat and Americans are their pledges

      11 years ago at 9:10 am
      1. GrandpaHammerDong

        Shit, I was hacked by my Muslim roommate. Don’t worry, he looks a lot like Robbins Williams now. And yes, I’m going to leave him on the ceiling fan for a while. God Bless America, Go Dawgs.

        11 years ago at 9:24 am
  7. Kav

    They should show this letter to all those unpatriotic social media groups, run by idiotic teenage girls, that are focused on saving him because they think he’s cute. This kid is boned one way or another. His defense team even admitted he’s guilty of the bombing and are basing their defense around why he did (peer pressure from brother). For him, dying might be a better option than staying alive, being known as that pussy who couldn’t think for himself, and being prison bitch the rest of his life. Either way, good riddance.

    11 years ago at 1:38 pm
  8. Lou Sanus

    I definitely see your point, but if you look at the accumulative amount a death penalty costs it’s more, but not significantly enough more to change my opinion…. It just seems like we are giving them what they want.

    11 years ago at 1:49 pm
  11. CopeNDope

    I think that all of the runners should be allowed to run over him right at the finish line.

    11 years ago at 7:30 pm