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MEDFORD, Mass. — Boston began to say goodbye on Sunday to those it lost last week. Its leaders — religious as well as political — fanned out, in front of naves and cameras, to do what they could to reassure grieving parishioners and constituents that the danger had passed. Or that for those who are gone, "life," as Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley put it, "is not ended, merely changed."
Memories were not the only thing etched for some mourners.
As Melanie Fitzemeyer, who baby-sat for Krystle Campbell two decades ago, walked to Ms. Campbell's wake along with hundreds of others at a brick-and-frame funeral home on Main Street here, she took off her jacket and rolled up her sleeve. Incised on her arm was a two-line tattoo she had gotten the night before, at a parlor owned by one of Ms. Campbell's cousins.
"Boston Strong," the top line read in black letters scored into the length of her forearm, the surrounding skin still pink and tender.
"1983 Krystle 2013," read the bottom.
Ms. Campbell, a 29-year-old restaurant manager, died after last Monday's bombing at the Boston Marathon from wounds sustained near the finish line of a race she tried to see every year. Ms. Fitzemeyer, 39, knew her longer than most, and remembered her as an exuberant child. "She liked to paint and color and make things," she said.
Ms. Campbell will be buried on Monday, and the wake here on Sunday was the first time anyone was able to say goodbye so intimately to any of the victims. Dozens came from Harvard — where her mother and brother work, as she once did — while 50 leather-and-denim clad members of motorcycle clubs stood across the street. Some told photographers to move down the street.
"We're just trying to keep the nonsense away," one biker explained after he and two friends blocked a cameraman.
Other bikers waited quietly, they said, in case a rumored picket by the Westboro Baptist Church materialized. "We're just here to create a respectful barrier for the family," said Tony Rossetti, a Middlesex County sheriff's deputy who is the president of the Boston chapter of the Enforcers Motorcycle Club, where he is known as Preacher.
Reassurance seemed to be the message from top city and state officials on the Sunday news shows.
Mayor Thomas M. Menino said that what he knew suggested that the two brothers suspected of carrying out the attack had operated by themselves. "All of the information that I have, they acted alone," he said on "This Week" on ABC.
The danger has passed, Gov. Deval Patrick said on "Face the Nation" on CBS. "The immediate threat, I think all of law enforcement feels, is over, based on the information we have," he said. "And that is a good thing, and you can feel the relief at home here."
Yet the investigation continued, with officials struggling to learn whether the brothers had help or were operating in league with anyone. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died after a shootout with the police in Watertown, Mass., early Friday morning, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was captured that night in Watertown and now lies grievously wounded in a Boston hospital bed.
At the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston, Cardinal O'Malley said some of the more than 170 wounded in the bombings had prayed there one week ago. He named the four who lost their lives — three who died at the finish line and a police officer who was killed three nights later in a fatal encounter with the Tsarnaev brothers, officials say — and said they would live in eternity.
"We must be a people of reconciliation, not revenge," the cardinal said. "The crimes of the two young men must not be the justification for prejudice against Muslims and against immigrants. The Gospel is the antidote to the 'eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth' mentality."
Jess Bidgood and Katharine Q. Seelye contributed reporting from Boston.
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: April 21, 2013
Because of editing errors, an earlier version of this article misstated the name of one of the Boston Marathon victims and the university she attended. Her name was Lu Lingzi, not Lingzi Lu, and she attended Boston University, not Brown. The article also incorrectly described the reason the university closed on Friday. It shut down during the search for the bombing suspects, not to honor Ms. Lu.
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