In Memory of VT Losses

So I hadn't really connected with all that happened on April 16th at Virginia Tech while I was away. But I'm sitting in my room today, going through stuff, and I found this magazine that came in the mail. Just reading through some stuff, like Bush's speech and student comments, I decided to post a few things that struck me. For all its ills, it is an amazing school, with very caring faculty.

Nikki Giovanni (teacher and poet) wrote:

We do not understand this tragedy. We know we did nothing to deserve it, but neither does a child in Africa dying of AIDS, neither do the invisible children walking the night away to avoid being captured by the rogue army, neither does the baby elephant watching his community being devastated for ivory, neither does the Mexican child looking for fresh water, neither does the Appalachain infant killed in the middle of the night in his crib in the home his father built with his own hands, being run over by a boulder because the land was destabilized. No one deserves a tragedy.

We are better than we think and not quite what we want to be. We are alive to the imaginations and the possibilities. We will continue to invent the future through our blood and tears and through all our sadness.

On Dr. Liviu Librescu:

The revelation that Dr. Liviu blocked the door of his classroom in Norris Hall on the morning of April 16 so that his students could escape through the windows came as no surprise to his family, friends, and colleagues. As a child in Romania during World War II, Liviu was confined to a Jewish ghetto, while his father was sent to a forced labor camp. After surviving the Holocaust, Liviu moved forward with stalwart determination to become an engineer...

In my eyes, a modern day hero. I don't like over-spiritualizing things, but I can only say that within one year there have been two massacres and my conclusion is that is the enemy's counter strategy for what God's doing in the area. Of course God's plans will prevail, and even be excellerated by these tragedies, but, this is definately still a very touchy subject.