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...understand that as humans, our fates are intertwined. Our world will always be a place where evil lurks and chills the heart of men, but it is our common home. When people lose good, they lose their humanity, and we all lose hope. The shooting at Virginia Tech—in all its horror—should remind us why being good to each other is more than a trivial matter. Our fates may be forever cursed to cross the path of grief, anger, hopelessness, and ruin, but our mutual coping can render these evils liveable. When we stop being...
...trying to explain why a 23-year old, after shooting two people in a dormitory, would, two hours later, chain the doors of a hall, walk to the second floor, and systematically murder thirty people in four classrooms. Some accounts will conclude the rampage to be a failure of Virginia Tech’s policies to provide a correct response when a gunman is on campus. Others may describe the shootings as the result of the inability of one alienated individual to find acceptance or as the failure of a community to recognize an individual who is at the breaking...
...President flew from Washington to Blacksburg in southwestern Virginia for the convocation at Virginia Tech on Tuesday, assuming the role of "comforter-in-chief" in the words of aides whose nostalgia for his post-9/11 popularity was a little too evident under the circumstances. But the story turned out not to be about him at all. Instead it was about the contrast between the real, painful grief visible among the relatives of the dead on the campus, and the eerie, slightly confused process of grieving that the rest of the community was going through...
...Bush left Andrews on Air Force One under low, leaden skies and landed at Roanoke under high, blue ones. Where Washington was cold and still wintry, the countryside between Roanoke and Blacksburg, viewed below on the helicopter ride to the Virginia Tech campus, was basking in sun and warm air. The contrast continued in Blacksburg, where the massive auditorium seemed ready not for a memorial, but for a college basketball game. It was packed to the rafters with chatting students, most in orange or maroon shirts or hoodies bearing the Virginia Tech logo. The rafters themselves were hung with banners...
...Virginia Tech Victims Night Falls on Virginia Tech Scenes From the Shooting From CNN.com