Dozens of people with Philadelphia ties were near the Boston Marathon finish line when the twin blasts went off. One area man with a particularly dramatic story is Howard Palamarchuk, director of sports medicine at Temple's School of Podiatric Medicine. He's been volunteering at the Boston Marathon for 28 years and was there Monday with nine of his students. "They weren't runners in shorts and T-shirts anymore," he said. "They were grandmothers, young ladies with their husbands, grandfathers, and parents.”