BUCKSPORT — Mya Moran of Verona Island, a senior at Bucksport High School, has been selected to receive the 2023 Principal s Award. The award, sponsored by the Maine Principals Association,
in 2012 six years after that first difficult return to the station, via moran is riding the trains regularly. translator: now i take the train all the time because i don t want to give up. i don t want to give up on public transportation. i still carry with me what i lived on that train. it s just as strong as on the first day. the images have not faded. you carry those memories because they are simply there. they have already become my kpanon. we live together. they will be with me until the day that i die. the investigation into the bombings uncovers three backpacks that had failed to detonate. what was key to the case and the evidence was finding these unexploded bombs. so when the police came upon these three backpacks that hadn t detonated and they were able to dissect them, find the cell phones, find the sim cards, follow the trail of where the
more explosions tear through the station. in total, ten timed explosions blast through four commuter trains across the city in a calculated act of terrorism. donna friezen covers the story as a correspondent for nbc news. these weren t suicide bombers. they were backpacks placed in the trains by terrorists who placed them then got off the train and left them. there were roughly 20 pounds of explosives in each backpack. and also filled with nails and screws and various shrapnel so there would be maximum damage. and they were all detonated by cell phones. so they had cell phones in them that the perpetrators then dialed the numbers of the cell phones. vooe ya moran is standing in the same train car that is carrying one of the backpacks. shortly after the explosion knocks him unconscious, he
and holds your hand. you realize you could live again. via moran escapes with his life. but the ten bombs kill 191 people. i remember the coroner saying the most disturbing thing for him was the sound of cell phones ringing in the pockets of the dead. because their loved ones were so desperate trying to find them. two years after the bombings, the shock waves are still resonating. friezen returns to madrid and visits via m o rks ran who is struggling to go past his memories. it was his first time back to the train station. he found it overwhelming but he said i m going to get on the train. i m going to do it. but you could see in his eyes how difficult it was and how he was going to be living with this for the rest of his life.