Runner Injured in Marathon Blasts: Boston Public Library Exhibit ‘very Emotional'

(NECN: Alysha Palumbo, Boston) - Many of those who want to reflect on the Boston Marathon bombings visited the city's public library at Copley Square, where a special exhibit is helping people heal.

Bombing survivor Scott Weisberg ran in the 117th Boston Marathon and said he wanted to be part of Tuesday's tribute.

"I felt that this would be part of the healing process,"

Finishing three seconds before the first bomb went off, he now suffers from sustained hearing loss.

Weisberg says he enjoys Boston Public Library's "Dear Boston" exhibit.

"This is very emotional. The thing outside was great, too, but this just really adds to the whole purpose of what's going on and why we're here and why we do this. Everytime I come back to Boston, it just makes me so proud to be part of this marathon and to be part of what happened and a survivor from last year," he said.

Originally from Birmingham, Ala., Weisberg says coming back to the city a year after the bombings was important to him "to feel that sense of unity and support that everybody has."

Last year, twin bombs went off in Copley Square, killing three and injuring more than 260 others. Two of the suspected terrorists were killed in a shootout with law enforcement officers a few days later in Watertown after allegedly assassinating an MIT police officer. The surviving suspect faces the death penalty in his federal trial starting this November.

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