On last year’s Patriot’s Day, a holiday celebrated every April 15 in the state of Massachusetts, two men, brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, detonated two bombs that killed three people and wounded dozens more who were watching the annual Boston Marathon.

Boston is such a small city; only two short blocks away are the Commons. It’s just such a beautiful old city with so much character and history, and it’s hard to imagine such a place being attacked. I couldn’t help but cry as I watched the scene unfold.