As most of us know, about two weeks ago on April 16, 2007, 32 people were murdered on the campus of Virginia Tech, not including the shooter himself who committed suicide. With 33 total deaths, this was the largest and most devastating school shooting in American history. It has impacted us greatly and has changed America forever.
Although probably no one directly impacted by the massacre will see this, I chose to respect the victims’ families and not to write about this on my other blog to give some time for all to grief. Now that some time has passed, I wanted to share my thoughts on the incident, the media handling of the story, the government’s response, and so on.
Before I do that in my next post though, I want to express my condolences for the families here on my blog by remembering everyone killed on April 16th and send my prayers to the wounded and their families.
The following is directly off the Virginia Tech website. Please visit the site at www.vt.edu or follow the V-Tech link in the sidebar under ‘Blogroll’. You can also copy the VT ribbon on the very bottom in the sidebar and place it on your blog, website, MySpace, ect.
In Memorium
WE REMEMBER
Ross Abdallah Alameddine
Christopher James Bishop
Brian Roy Bluhm
Ryan Christopher Clark
Austin Michelle Cloyd
Jocelyne Couture-Nowak
Kevin P. Granata
Matthew Gregory Gwaltney
Caitlin Millar Hammaren
Jeremy Michael Herbstritt
Rachael Elizabeth Hill
Emily Jane Hilscher
Jarrett Lee Lane
Matthew Joseph La Porte
Henry J. Lee
Liviu Librescu
G.V. Loganathan
Partahi Mamora Halomoan Lumbantoruan
Lauren Ashley McCain
Daniel Patrick O’Neil
Juan Ramon Ortiz-Ortiz
Minal Hiralal Panchal
Daniel Alejandro Perez
Erin Nicole Peterson
Michael Steven Pohle, Jr.
Julia Kathleen Pryde
Mary Karen Read
Reema Joseph Samaha
Waleed Mohamed Shaalan
Leslie Geraldine Sherman
Maxine Shelly Turner
Nicole White
We will continue to invent the future through our blood and tears and through all our sadness…. We will prevail….
April 30, 2007 at 12:07 am
Leave your thoughts and prayers here (not in the other VT post).
May 14, 2007 at 9:24 am
Hi. My name is Jackie Livingston and for school we had to write an event that happened in history and I choose the Virginia Tech event because I thought that everyone should know that the world is very cruel out there and things can happen at anytime of point. I actually didn’t hear about the event till I got to school and everyone was talking about it. I never relized that you can lose someone so fast and so quick that you probably weren’t excepting it and you probably didn’t tell you you love them that day or you were mad at them but deep down inside they knew that you loved them and that you really cared. I showed everybody in our class to tell the people who you love every day because you never know when something like that could happen in an instant.