only through their clinical expertise, but by their enormous capacity for compassion. and while many of us here struggle to heal within those hospital walls, a movement coalesced throughout our city, state and country. boston strong a simple phrase with a not so simple meaning became our uniting call. it symbolized our communal determination to spread compassion, generosity, unity and pride. it is the firefighter running towards danger and the police officer ensuring our safety. but it's also the quiet moments, individual snap shots of grace. it's the countless hours our families spent by our bedsides sometimes in silence as they offered their love by their