PRESS & DAKOTAN ■ TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2013 PAGE 9 Grasping For A Reason For The Un-Reasonable Press&Dakotan BY JAMES D. CIMBUREK on Monday, but such things are (thankfully) not an every day occurrence in this country, so it still catches us
[email protected] off guard. DAILY DOSE As I got through the rest of the day, helping the news department with their reaction piece while trying to My Monday morning started better than most. I finished the therapy on my torn rotator cuff, then got a de- put together my story on Dewald, I found myself trying to understand why someone would do this. cent workout in before lunch with my wife. As I was sitting at lunch with her, I saw the news about Yankton na- The answer did not come. Daily opinions from the P&D tive Matt Dewald, a young man who I had the pleasure of covering for most of my career, finishing 20th in the There can be no answer to explain the random taking of lives. There can be no answer to explain the ran- Sports Staff on local and na- Boston Marathon. dom mutilation of over 100 individuals: children, fathers, mothers, friends. There can be no answer to explain destruction of lives. tional high school, college Two hours later, just as I finished talking to Dewald, I got the news about the bombings near the finish line of the race. I knew Dewald was fine, having talked to him about 30 minutes after the first bombings, but I was That feeling of shock and disbelief is something I first felt on 9-11 and have felt a couple times since.