Northeast Wisconsin residents who have witnessed a terrorist bombing feel a connection to the victims and witnesses of the terrorist attack in Manchester, England.
Steve and Amy Wieckert witnessed the Boston marathon bombing in 2013; Steve ran the race while Amy cheered him on.
Steve finished the race four minutes before the first blast rocked the finish line area, he said.
"Almost like being in a war,” he said of the 2013 memories.
“And when you're in a war you feel the battles, you feel when someone else is in battle [like the event in Manchester],” Steve said.
Three people died and hundreds more were injured in the Boston attack; the surviving bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, is on death row. The Manchester bombing this week killed 22 people and injured nearly 120 others.
The Wieckerts joined other local runners Wednesday night at the Neenah Public Library to screen “Patriots Day,” the movie about the Boston bombing.
