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Carlos Arredondo, in the cowboy hat, helps push Jeff Bauman Jr. in a wheel chair after the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15, 2013. / AP PHOTO/CHARLES KRUPA

Jeff Bauman was among those standing in the wrong place -- near the finish line of the Boston Marathon -- when the first bomb went off. Within seconds of the explosion rescue personnel and people who had just come to see the race were swarming over the area helping the victims. Three came to Bauman's aid, putting him a wheelchair and, while the ashen-faced Bauman clutched what remained of his left leg, rushed him to the medical tent. As they did, a news photographer took what became an iconic picture of the tragedy.

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