{"id":445,"date":"2015-04-20T10:30:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T14:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunewsservice.com\/Marathon2015\/?p=445"},"modified":"2015-04-20T14:01:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T18:01:21","slug":"remembering-marathon-bombing-victim-lingzi-lu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bunewsservice.com\/Marathon2015\/remembering-marathon-bombing-victim-lingzi-lu\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Marathon Bombing Victim Lingzi Lu"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From left: Daniel Solworth, Chief of Staff at Boston University Student Office & Division of Student Life; Xuanmin Yu, Lingzi Lu’s uncle; Lingzi Lu’s cousin; Jinyan Zhao, Lingzi Lu’s aunt (Photo by Haiyun Jiang\/BU News Service)<\/p><\/div>\n

By Haiyun Jiang<\/strong>
\nBU News Service <\/em><\/p>\n

Early Spring wind blew across Nickerson Field as Jinyan Zhao sat in the stands, recalling her niece Lingzi Lu, who was tragically killed in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.<\/p>\n

Though two years have passed since the bombing, the loss remains a scar that will never heal for Lu’s family and friends. On Friday, members of Lu’s family were invited to a lacrosse game between Boston University and Holy Cross. Before the game, at a ceremony held in honor of Lu, a check for $5,024 was presented to the family by Daniel Solworth, Chief of Staff from the Division of Student Life at Boston University. All the money will go to the Lingzi Lu Scholarship, established by the trustees of Boston University.<\/p>\n

Zhou remembered her niece as vibrant, pure and persistent. “When she spent Thanksgiving and Christmas with us in Rhode Island, she would laugh all the time while watching TV shows on the couch,\u201d said Zhou. \u201cShe loved Boston, her friends and professors here. She just got started.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the morning of the 2013 bombings, 23-year-old Lu had just finished a big test at BU and decided to watch the Boston Marathon. Her friend and fellow BU student Danling Zhou accompanied her to Boylston Street that day. The two were walking by Forum Restaurant when the second bomb went off. Danling Zhou survived the attack; Lu did not.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was quiet, loved music and piano,\u201d said a tearful Yan Xia, Lu\u2019s former neighbor and classmate. Xia had been Lu\u2019s friend since she first moved to Boston.<\/p>\n

At a memorial service held in honor of Lu in 2013, her family described her passing as \u201cgrief, pain and sadness beyond words.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHer parents are far away in China now. Sometimes it helps. They feel Lingzi is still here, studying abroad,\u201d said Zhao. \u201cI talk with them and it\u2019s still painful to bring it up. But most of the time they are tough and optimistic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zhili Wu, a student from Northeastern University who was also a neighbor of Lu, met with Lu\u2019s parents at last year\u2019s anniversary. \u201cI remember her father saying that Boston is beautiful, but he can\u2019t appreciate it. It\u2019s painful and devastating,” said Wu, recalling a conversation she had with Lu\u2019s parents. “But after one year, he came back and gradually realized why Lingzi loved Boston.”<\/p>\n

One year after Lu\u2019s death, her family started the Lingzi Lu Foundation, which will help cover tuition for students who share Lu\u2019s dream.<\/p>\n

\u201cTraditionally in China, we believe in letting the spirit rest. \u201cAnd here we are trying to keep her spirit alive,\u201d said Xuanmin Yu, Lu\u2019s uncle and one of the foundation founders.<\/p>\n

Ten people are running for Lingzi Lu Foundation this year, including a Chinese student Yujue Wang from Boston University, Yu said.<\/p>\n

When the subject of the trial against accused marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is brought up, Zhao said that family and friends generally avoid talking about it with her parents. “They don\u2019t want to know anything,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

At least one relative of Lingzi Lu may testify during the second phase of the trial to speak about Lingzi as they knew her.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want as many people as possible to know the details of Lingzi\u2019s life,\u201d said Tom Price, attorney for the Lu family. \u201cAnd to remember her as the individual that she was.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Haiyun Jiang BU News Service Early Spring wind blew across Nickerson Field as Jinyan Zhao sat in the stands, recalling her niece Lingzi Lu, who was tragically killed in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. Though two years have passed since the bombing, the loss remains a scar that will never heal for Lu’s family […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[14],"class_list":{"0":"post-445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-thestories","9":"post-with-thumbnail","10":"post-with-thumbnail-large"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunewsservice.com\/Marathon2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunewsservice.com\/Marathon2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunewsservice.com\/Marathon2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunewsservice.com\/Marathon2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunewsservice.com\/Marathon2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bunewsservice.com\/Marathon2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/bunewsservice.com\/Marathon2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunewsservice.com\/Marathon2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunewsservice.com\/Marathon2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunewsservice.com\/Marathon2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunewsservice.com\/Marathon2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunewsservice.com\/Marathon2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}