I wasn't going to talk about this but yesterday's events at Virgina Tech hit a little too close to home. Not only was it sobering to arrive at work this morning to a "campus crisis" plan from the President, but it took me back 6 years ago to my junior year of college. Four students were killed by a "legally insane" student with his car. He ran them down in the middle of a busy pedestrian intersection adjacent to campus at 11pm on a Friday night for no good rhyme or reason. Every single student had walked that intersection, many, MANY times, and the anxiety that many students felt as a result of this senseless crime was pungent for a very long time. I'm getting chills thinking about it right now.
My heart goes out to all the kids on that campus. Not only did the shooter take 33 lives, he took a sense of security from that entire campus that is not easy to recover from.
On another note... thank you so much for your thoughts on the house! We are so, so SO excitied - it still doesn't seem real! (Oh the joy of being house-poor for the next year... I better start yarn stashing now!)
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2 comments:
I think probably the sense of safety was taken away from many, many people yesterday. :(
It's definitely sobering. Blacksburg is such a nice little college town, where not a lot happens, which makes this even harder to take.
I'm intimately familiar with that part of VA - I went to school at Radford for a year, my brother graduated from Radford and still lives out there, and my boyfriend went to VA Tech. My mind still can't really grasp this.
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