Deaths
- 2011 – William Caviness, 35, Greensboro, North Carolina – Believed to have died from cardiac arrest five hundred yards from finish line.
- 2007 – Chad Schieber, 35, Midland, Michigan – Mitral valve prolapse
- 2003 – Rachael Townsend, 29, The Plains, Ohio – Mitral valve prolapse
- 2001 – Luke Roach, 22, Seattle, Washington – Collapsed near finish line. Body temperature reached 107 °F (42 °C)
- 2000 – Danny Towns, 45, Edmond, Oklahoma – Cardiac arrest
- 1998 – Kelly Barrett, 43, Littleton, Colorado – Believed to be caused by hyponatremia
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“This is the 184th Demonstration.
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What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
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“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)