I’ve been avoiding directly addressing the Virginia Tech massacre, because really, what is there to say? I’ve been kind of walking around in a vaguely horrified stupor for the past couple of days.
And then I read this. And whatever the reason, that was the thing that broke me. The image of this professor, wounded, blocking the door so his students could escape. Reading that he was a Holocaust survivor.
My heart goes out to everyone on that campus and to everyone who knows someone on that campus and all the friends and families of the victims. I don’t know what else to say.
I heard this man’s son talking about him yesterday. If he’s not a hero, I have no fricking idea who is.
More than anything else in this horrible tragedy, that image really got to me as well.
VT Administrators appeared better equipped for student memorial planning than student security planning
Wow. There’s no need to blame. One person is to blame. Media the administration, the security staff, the police, or they blame his peers who picked on him, then the parents of the peers who picked on him for not controlling their kids… Where does it end?
He was disturbed. He killed people. Security and police did what they thought they had to do. Administration did what they thought they had to do. It happened. We can learn from it. But we have to move forward. There is no need to point fingers from a place of imagined sovereignty.
blame…did you think i was laying blame? nah, just making an observation, and think it’s accurate