DemocracyNow! to describe witnessing the Boston Marathon bombings and the immediate response to aid the victims.

Carlos Arredondo:

"I just concentrate in removing the fence to help everybody coming to the scene. And then I concentrate on a young man who lost both of the limbs. I ripped up a T-shirt, and another gentleman helped me out, and we put this tourniquet on the legs. And then the first wheelchair that arrived, you know, I picked him up and put him in the wheelchair, and I dragged him out of there, because only I can do at the time."

When Marines came to Carlos Arredondo’s home in 2004 to inform him that his son had been killed in Iraq, he destroyed their van in a frenzy and accidentally set it, as well as himself, on fire, burning 30% of his body. After his recovery, Carlos Arredondo began his mission of peace by heading to Washington D.C. to join protesters at "Camp Democracy."