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Nurse Kim Giroux was working in Medical Tent A at the finish line of the Boston Marathon at roughly 2:50 p.m.

She was tending to an Army Veteran who, along with a group of comrades, had just traversed the entire length of the marathon course in full gear, including fatigues, full backpack, combat boots and photos of brothers-in-arms who had never made it back home.

Moments later, back-to-back bomb blasts in Copley Square triggered instincts in both heroes and spurred them to the duties for which they’d been trained.
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Giroux said the explosion caused the soldier to jump from his stretcher and she had a hard time getting him to stay put. “I said, ‘it’s not your job right now.’ He said, ‘you don’t understand, this is my job,’” she said. “I said, ‘I do understand. But you need to understand that it’s my job to take care of you.’”
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When children began being brought in for treatment, Giroux turned her attention toward them, putting her skills as a pediatric nurse to good use.
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When she turned back toward her soldier, he and his comrades were gone. They had left the tent and gone to work in the blast zone, helping with the efforts to clear the area and rescue the injured.

I remember years ago talking to someone who’d been in the journalism business for awhile about “death of print” issues. And he started fretting about losing Time and Newsweek. I couldn’t imagine why. I’m not dancing on its grave, but I really couldn’t think of what either of those magazines contributed positively to our culture or to “journalism.”

Anyway, national journalism of various kinds is here to stay. It’s the local stuff we should worry about.

In its prime, which lasted an astonishingly long time — from the early 1960s to the mid-2000s — Newsweek was as innovative, eminent and influential as any news organization in America or the world. Not every week, every issue or every story, but overall.

The impact of a newsmagazine was cumulative and even glacial — measured in decades not years, weeks or daily news cycles. The game, at heart, was to comprehend vast, historical cultural and political changes before others did, and document them in detail.

We owe you a choice — specific solutions, specific ideas.

We like Sarah Palin. I think we’d have had a full house here if they put her out on the campaign trail. The brought her out four years too soon. She’s cute as a button, and if nothing else, she’d be a great cheerleader for Romney.