Excellent comments Ally, and very on point.
Your observations of the emotions and temperament of the people who lived front and center, in the middle of the events of last week really struck a cord with me. The shock and sense of anger and resolve that permeated the greater Boston area over the last 7 days, and especially on Thursday and Friday is something no one who wasn't here can ever understand.
When a major metropolitan area, a City of nearly a million people is in lock down, the streets vacant from dawn until dusk on Friday during school vacation week, is an event I could not have ever comprehended before last week. For people half way across the country to criticize and armchair quarterback and question the reactions of Bostonian is the height of arrogance and ignorance.
There is a disturbing sense of self-righteousness and total lack of understanding and comprehension in the comments of this Rachelina, who seeks attention and acts like a bully. When confronted about her questionable grasp of reality there was no self-reflection but rather a guttural lapse into name calling and using the number of reviews someone has as an indicator of intelligence, competence or emotional understanding? Hers is nothing more than childish schoolyard behavior.
Like others have pointed out, once you apologize its time to STFU and begin the process of understanding why you had to apologize in the first place. Unless of course yours wasn't an apology at all as others have suggested.
If you haven’t figured it out yet, you wouldn’t be very welcome here in Boston. This is a City that showed its strength and compassion along with its character in ways that made me feel proud to be from Massachusetts but also an American. I don’t think we’d have the interest or patience for someone as shallow and hopelessly devoid of real understanding of what went down here last week.
I have 16 reviews and all that makes me is someone with 16 reviews. Period
