“Do you feel the faintest inkling of regret? I know it’s a weird thing to ask of someone who is still alive – especially someone like Matthew, who isn’t going to have a physical rematch – but do you feel any, some small sliver of regret for losing the battle? Does the memory still keep you up at night? Or is it at most a part of your daily life? If you haven’t yet, can you promise me that it won’t be a part of your life? Or at least the part that you can start to escape from?”
Nicholas Friedman, ex-USA Today sports columnist and author of “The Best Game: A Sporting Life,” below provides two e-mails to the father of the Boston Marathon bombing survivors William and Sydney Corcoran, Michael. Michael Corcoran and his wife have been pushed to extraordinary measures by their two daughters – both severely wounded in the terror attack – but they are also not free of a worry about a future full of fear and tragedy:
There is nothing within a mile of any of us that we wouldn’t do for our children.