This true story is of a personal journey of an Air Force sergeant and his wife that married at Castle Air Force Base in California and moved to Altus Air Force Base in Oklahoma in 1994. Less than a year later, the newlywed couple were unable to conceive a child and were beginning the second series of three unsuccessful attempts of reproductive treatments when the Oklahoma City Bombing occurred at 9:02 am on April 19, 1995. The personal heartbreak and the simultaneous loss of 15 children at the day care center at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and its aftermath set a sorrowful resonating tone of acceptance and getting on with life. That meant marathon running for the sergeant and being a hairstylist for the wife. That is, until the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15, 2013. The clock at the nish line during the first explosion reminded him of his rst marathon time of 4:09 and something seconds. As a native of Massachusetts, the sergeant's long dormant reactions and emotions of 1995 were now returning. The death of an eight-year-old boy near the last stretch to the nish line and a very close date of the Oklahoma City bombing reminded him of the dream that was trying to be stolen again from him, and from other marathoners. Thus began a passionate journey to reclaim the nish line and achieve redemption. This is not only his story, but a story of our national character..."