article_snippet.sent: The couple's statement of compassion follows a similar appeal made by the family of an eight-year-old boy, Martin Richard, who was killed in the blast.
article_snippet.sent: Moving on: Here The couple are pictured completing the Boston Marathon in wheelchairs on the one-year anniversary .
article_snippet.sent: The Richards made The Richards appeal in a moving op-ed for The Boston Globe, published last Tuesday, just a day after the two-year anniversary of The Richards son Martin's death.
article_snippet.sent: The family of bombing victim Martin Richard is pictured on the two-year anniversary of the attack.
article_snippet.sent: Clockwise from top left: bombing victim Martin Richard, Bill Richard, bombing victim Martin Richard and bombing victim Martin Richard .
article_snippet.sent: Moments before: bombing victim Martin Richard is seen circled in blue on the day of the Marathon.
article_snippet.sent: Behind bombing victim Martin Richard walks Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, carrying a backpack believed to have held one of the two bombs .
article_snippet.sent: Martin Richard died at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013 . '
article_snippet.sent: the Richards brought our family three kids out to watch the Boston Marathon two years ago, and were standing just steps away from where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev brother Tamerlan (who died in a shootout with police a few days later) dropped off two pressure cooker bombs.
article_snippet.sent: During the course of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's trial, photos were shown in court of the moments before Little Martin dropped off a bomb in a backpack, strolling just behind the Richard family lined up against a gate at the finish line.
article_snippet.sent: On the day the op-ed was published, the Richard family revisited the finish line to take part in a memorial.
article_snippet.sent: the Richard family were pictured hugging and crying at the emotional ceremony.