anticipating with the whole community, thousands of people right there you know, it was very beautiful. and very healing. since then, they have appeared at other sporting events and fundraisers to help the victims with medical bills. along the way, carlos has become well known. you re a hero to all of us. thank you very much. they call him? cowboy. great picture. thank you so much. god bless you. and god bless you. but cowboy shrugs it off, saying the real heroes are the survivors, people with the courage of jeff baugmman. a very beautiful young man, you know, he was already an inspiration for myself and many other people, you know, willing to live. god works in strange ways, you know. and this kid is really quite a survivor.
and it was a very, very hard time before his brother could cry, especially. brian, the younger son, fell into a deep depression, and drug addiction. he took his own life several years later. brian never recuperated from all of these feelings himself. losing his brother was the worst thing that could happen to him. this year s marathon included runners who were honoring veterans and carlos wanted to support them. but suddenly his mission changed. when the first bomb went off, we were not too sure about it. when the second bomb went off? something just blew up. we pretty much figured out that this was some kind of attack. i went like this. i did the cross, and i just went
enthusiastic cheers of the boston marathon spectators were silenced with bombs. it takes a special person to run the course, and on the days after it was heroic of the people who came to the rescue. one man s name was carlos adondo. when the bomb went off, you see the ball of fire whatever it was, it was very bad, very bad. on april 15th, carlos arredondo, an immigrant from costa rico, became the picture of passion. while others could have run for safety, others ran to save lives. there were people who needed my help. i hoped not to get in anybody s way and helped in any way i could. in boston, it is patriot s day. but carlos was not there just to
celebrate. i give away 400 american flags to the spectators. i was holding the last one in my hands when the bombs went off. for several years he has been talking about the needs of military vets and suicide preventi prevention. this is my son, we lost him in iraq. his son, alex, was deployed to iraq in 2004. in carlos s memory is the fact he learned carlos was killed by a sniper. i felt my heart went down to the floor and rushed 100 miles an hour to my chest. and it was a very, very hard time before his brother could cry, especially. brian, the younger son, fell into a deep depression, and drug addiction. he took his own life several
completely ripped off from his sides, you know. if we didn t get him to the hospital his life was in danger. by missing so much blood. car are loss asked a woman who had grabbed a wheelchair for help. and with another man he applied a make shift tourniquet. then as quickly as possible they raced toward an ambulance. it got stuck in the wheel. that is when we stopped and we ripped it apart. and we did it again. i had my hands on the tourniquet, tightening up the bleeding. in the ambulance i asked him for his name. he responded to me. jeff ballman. carlos, shaken, met up with his wife waiting down the block. well, he had blood all over him. he took one look at me and i looked at him and we both started to cry and grabbed each other, hugged and kissed each