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...camp counselor, a songwriter--in every case a portrait of promise and purpose. They had not wandered into one of the nation's top universities by accident; they had engineered and calculated and coaxed their way into this school, and they were going places, until one day they weren't anymore, stopped by the accumulated debris and derangement of another life, another intent long in the making...
...every shot he braced himself, thinking, "This one is for me." His mind wandered; he wondered what a gunshot wound feels like, how much it would hurt. He wondered if he would die slow or fast, and then he thought of his family. "I was terrified that my parents weren't going to be able to go on after I was gone." There was a student in front of him, also under a desk. He didn't know her name, but they kept eye contact. "She was brave. I don't think she cried. We just stared at each other...
Even before the ambulances swarmed, students were carrying the wounded away from the scene; some were using their balled-up clothes to stanch the bleeding. An emergency-room doctor said there weren't any victims with fewer than three bullets in them. Dr. David Stoeckle told of treating a student with a gunshot through his femoral artery. The student was an Eagle Scout, he said. "He wrapped an electrical cord tight around his leg because he knew he was bleeding to death...
Those who remained, 10,000 strong, gathered one more time on Tuesday night, when the winds at last had faded and the candles could burn, turning the entire drill field a glowing Hokie orange. When the commemoration was over, students stayed. Many just weren't ready to go home yet, or be by themselves...
...leave the scene and keep shooting people - something almost no murderer does - is different from assuming that a person who has long been identified as a threat, as Cho had, won't hurt someone. The fateful decisions that cost the lives of 30 more people at Virginia Tech weren't made on Monday morning; they were made in the previous 18 months...