Boston Strong

We hope Wednesday’s guilty verdict helps bring closure to the people of Boston, especially to those closest to the Marathon Bombing victims. We pray the month of testimony, some of whose highlights Howie Carr noted on these pagesMonday, brought some catharsis. We’ll particularly remember Jessica Kensky, asked to circle her thenfiancé in a photo of the grim day that cost them three legs between them, instead drawing a heart around her nowhusband.

The law leaves it to the jury to decide between the death penalty or life imprisonment for the killer, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. If ever a case called for the ultimate sanction, this would seem to be it — but we’ll trust the jury, as is our ironclad rule.

Whenever he meets his maker, he’ll wind up sharing the same final, fiery fate as his late, unlamented brother.

New Yorkers would do well to recall that the brothers had intended, after Patriots’ Day, to bring the rest of their bombs here. This city remains the country’s leading terror target, a perverse kind of compliment.

We can thank the NYPD — plus its helpers at the FBI, Homeland Security and other federal agencies, and its local lawenforcement allies — for the fact that terrorists have failed to shed a drop of innocent blood in New York City in all the years since 9/ 11.

Any of dozens of foiled plots— including the one last month, with the makings of Bostonstyle bombs allegedly part of the evidence— could have succeeded.

That none has is just one more reason to pause every day to thank the men and women in blue.