When word got out about Osama bin Laden Boston was killed by a military attack from the United States, parents of 11.9 victims expressed relief, while hundreds - some say a thousand or more - students took to the lush sidewalks of the city with American flags and noisemakers.
"I waited for 10 days this year," said Dorothy Grodberg, 77, whose 41-year-old daughter Lisa Fenn Gordon Stein, a Needham mother of two young children, died in the first aircraft crashed into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11.
"I am pleased that we have. My only regret is not having to life," he said in a telephone interview from his home in Jamaica Plain.
Added her husband, Robert, 79, "All human life is important, but end its ability to promote terrorism is very, very important."
Christie Coombs, 50, of Abington, whose husband Jeff was killed on American Airlines Flight 11, also expressed relief, but stressed that the loss was still acute.
"Tonight, the news does not change anything for us," he said. "We're still awake in the morning without my husband and my children are still without a father. The rest of 11,09 families remains an empty plate on the table, "he said.
Despite its original sense of relief, Coombs said he planned a retaliation from supporters of bin Laden. "When will you begin to punish his supporters?" She said. "It was very powerful people."
Normal Sunday activities around the city to a standstill when the news of the terrorist leader had died began to flee, online and on television news.
When the news broke, hundreds of students gathered in Kenmore Square, near Boston University, and police have blocked traffic in the region.
By Sarah, 19, a freshman at BU in New York, said: "This is not a party that is dead, we finally have a victory," he said, down Commonwealth Avenue in Kenmore Square Sunday night.
Boston College students were seen up and down the campus sidewalks waving American flags, shouting and blowing horns vuvuzela relic of the World Cup.
On the seventh floor of a dormitory Emerson College on Boylston Street, the students - most of whom barely in high school when the U.S. was attacked on Sept. 11 - gathered around the nearest television.
Morgan St. John, a senior, said she and some friends were studying for final exams when he heard via Twitter that the president address the nation. "We turned on the news and suddenly the room was flooded with people."
Sophomore Shanae Burch said that the Council of fear. "I'm really overwhelmed right now. I want to know what that means, "said sophomore." I'm glad it happened because it's really a big statement. "
Junior Samantha Russo said she feels the conflict, but also fear. "But it's a little crazy with me. I love people who know what you think [Osama], which is crazy."
The Boylston Street, where shouts of "freedom" to hear a small group of revelers dispersed, Juan Orozco Allston, a cook of 33 years who moved to the United States from Colombia in 2001, said she had fear of violent struggles that terrorists would not have ended with the death of bin Laden.
"It's very, good to hear that the husband," said Orozco. "But also, you know you on your toes, because there are people behind him. You have to stay."
Brandeis junior Hyder Kazmi, who is Muslim, said he was pleased with the way it deals with communications and Obama are urging Americans to Bin Laden distinct actions of Muslims love peace.
"I know your type of ticket to the Muslim community and that it is out of his way of saying that Osama was Muslims fighting and killing of Muslims has been greatly appreciated," he said.
Kazmi said he is concerned about increasing anti-Muslim rhetoric in recent months. However, the less said the president's words deleted some of their fears. "I am proud to be American and proud to be recognized as an American."
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