Taking me back to a bad place

There was a terrible bombing that happened today during the Boston Marathon. So many people were injured, over 100, and three, as of right now are dead.  It takes me back to Iraq when the FOB Marez DFAC was hit with a suicide bomber.  I remember that happening so vividly, even though I wasn't there, I had to pour over the intel that came in about it.  I had to look at the pictures, to try to piece together what had happened and to come up with a risk assessment for Camp Victory.  I saw the pictures of the carnage from today and they look eerily similar to the carnage from that suicide bomber in Mosul. Ball bearings everywhere, into people's flesh... it hurts, it takes me somewhere that I don't want to be.