On Boston, Again

364 days ago, I read something that has stayed with me for one year less one day.  It was an opinion piece in the Times about the Boston Marathon bombings, and terrorism more broadly. You can, and should, read it in full here, but the lines that most resonated with me were the following:

Cave dwelling is for terrorists. Americans? We run in the open on our streets — men and women, young and old, new immigrants and foreigners, in shorts not armor, with abandon and never fear, eyes always on the prize, never on all those “suspicious” bundles on the curb. In today’s world, sometimes we pay for that quintessentially American naïveté, but the benefits — living in an open society — always outweigh the costs.