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Virginia Tech Tragedy - The Day After
Tuesday March 17, 2007
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I start off this post by again saying that our thoughts and prayers go out to all the victims... their families and friends.
Virginia Tech Tragedy - The Day After
Tuesday March 17, 2007
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I start off this post by again saying that our thoughts and prayers go out to all the victims... their families and friends.
God bless each and every one of you.
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* Alleged VT Shooter Named
His name: Cho Seung-Hui
Cho Seung-Hui was a 23-year-old South Korean national and resident alien from Centreville, Va. He is reported to have been an Undergraduate Senior at VT majoring in English.
His name: Cho Seung-Hui
Cho Seung-Hui was a 23-year-old South Korean national and resident alien from Centreville, Va. He is reported to have been an Undergraduate Senior at VT majoring in English.
* Video of announcement below *
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>>> Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates today expressed condolences to the victims and families of yesterday's mass shooting that killed 33 people at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, in Blacksburg, Va.
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Gates's comments came as he finished a meeting ... with Jordan's King Abdallah. "His Majesty expressed his condolences for the tragedy at Virginia Tech," Gates said.
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Gates's comments came as he finished a meeting ... with Jordan's King Abdallah. "His Majesty expressed his condolences for the tragedy at Virginia Tech," Gates said.
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The secretary said he has a special understanding of what universities go through in the wake of tragedy of this magnitude.
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"I would just add personally [Gates said] that as a recent president of a university that only about seven and a half years ago had its own tragedy, when 12 students were killed when the bonfire collapsed at Texas A&M, perhaps more than most I can understand the horror and the emotions at Virginia Tech and extend my personal condolences to the students and the faculty and staff there"...
Read the rest at link below...
Gates, Jordanian King Express Condolences to Virginia Tech
Read the rest at link below...
Gates, Jordanian King Express Condolences to Virginia Tech
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Honoring the Victims of the Tragedy at Virginia Tech
A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America
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Our Nation grieves with those who have lost loved ones at Virginia Tech. We hold the victims in our hearts. We lift them up in our prayers, and we ask a loving God to comfort those who are suffering.
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As a mark of respect for the victims of the senseless acts of violence perpetrated on Monday, April 16, 2007, by the authority vested in me as President of the United States by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby order that the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff at the White House and upon all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions until sunset, Sunday, April 22, 2007. I also direct that the flag shall be flown at half-staff for the same length of time at all United States embassies, legations, consular offices, and other facilities abroad, including all military facilities and naval vessels and stations.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this seventeenth day of April, in the year of our Lord two thousand seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-first.
GEORGE W. BUSH
Taken from a press release by The White House - Office of the Press Secretary
April 17, 2007
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Honoring the Victims of the Tragedy at Virginia Tech
A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America
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Our Nation grieves with those who have lost loved ones at Virginia Tech. We hold the victims in our hearts. We lift them up in our prayers, and we ask a loving God to comfort those who are suffering.
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As a mark of respect for the victims of the senseless acts of violence perpetrated on Monday, April 16, 2007, by the authority vested in me as President of the United States by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby order that the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff at the White House and upon all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions until sunset, Sunday, April 22, 2007. I also direct that the flag shall be flown at half-staff for the same length of time at all United States embassies, legations, consular offices, and other facilities abroad, including all military facilities and naval vessels and stations.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this seventeenth day of April, in the year of our Lord two thousand seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-first.
GEORGE W. BUSH
Taken from a press release by The White House - Office of the Press Secretary
April 17, 2007
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President Bush Offers Condolences at
Virginia Tech Memorial Convocation
Video and Transcript HERE
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President Bush Offers Condolences at
Virginia Tech Memorial Convocation
Video and Transcript HERE
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The France24 website has this report this afternoon that starts off like this... Tears flowed silently in a flower-decked hall Tuesday in a sea of maroon and orange outfits. Thousands mourned the deaths of 33 university students and teachers mown down in a hail of bullets...
Read the rest at link below...
The France24 website has this report this afternoon that starts off like this... Tears flowed silently in a flower-decked hall Tuesday in a sea of maroon and orange outfits. Thousands mourned the deaths of 33 university students and teachers mown down in a hail of bullets...
Read the rest at link below...
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NYDAILYNEWS.com has this courageous story that starts off like this... Virginia Tech University Prof. Liviu Librescu, described as a family man who once did research for NASA, sacrificed his life to save his students in the shooting rampage yesterday... "When he heard the gunfire, he blocked the entrance and got shot through the door," his daughter-in-law Ayala Schmulevich said...
Read the rest of the story at link below...
Courageous final act of professor
(God bless you Professor) ...
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NYDAILYNEWS.com has this courageous story that starts off like this... Virginia Tech University Prof. Liviu Librescu, described as a family man who once did research for NASA, sacrificed his life to save his students in the shooting rampage yesterday... "When he heard the gunfire, he blocked the entrance and got shot through the door," his daughter-in-law Ayala Schmulevich said...
Read the rest of the story at link below...
Courageous final act of professor
(God bless you Professor) ...
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Here’s a photo Essay by CBSNEWS.com
Virginia Tech Massacre
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Here’s a List of the Shooting Victims
by CBSNEWS.com
TO View Click HERE
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Here’s a photo Essay by CBSNEWS.com
Virginia Tech Massacre
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Here’s a List of the Shooting Victims
by CBSNEWS.com
TO View Click HERE
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About Photo: Students comfort each other during a Convocation on the Virginia Tech campus Tuesday, April 17, 2007, honoring the victims of a deadly shooting Monday. Thirty-three people, including the gunman, died in the rampage at the Blacksburg, Va. School.
White House photo by Eric Draper
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