On the best
day for Americans in the Boston Marathon’s prize-money era, it was a man who
took nearly six hours to finish who provided the most indelible image of
American pride.
Staff Sgt.
Jose Luis Sanchez, a retired Marine who lost the lower part of his left leg
stepping on an IED in Afghanistan in 2011, was filmed and photographed
throughout Monday’s 26.2-mile race.
More on
Sanchez’s story here, via the Boston Globe.
Sanchez wore a
“Semper Fi” shirt, ran on a prosthetic left leg and carried an American flag.
He previously
ran the Boston Marathon and Marine Corps Marathon in Washington, D.C., last
year.
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