Tragic loss.
While I'm just now getting around to talking about this, I have been following it all day.
The very tragic loss of life at VA Tech.
These shootings are just horrible and I can't even imagine what it was like being there, having friends there, still not knowing if those friends are ok.
The families of students flooding phone lines to find out where their child is, only to find out they can't get through.
A student at VA tech named Bryce, has been posting to his live journal all day while it was happening.
People are being mostly supportive, offering condolences and words of support.
But then there are the media vultures posting comments asking for interviews, people posting comments about how it's like Iraq, that soldiers die every day for our freedoms, that Bryce is just dramatizing his role.
He's simply posting what happened, how it's affecting him. 33 people have died on his campus today, it's affecting him, death effects people.
My heart goes out to all of the students at VA tech and to the families of the deceased.
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Oh, my goodness...that poor kid! How awful to be so close to such a terrible tragedy.
I think that it was a form of therapy for him to write all of that. He's scared that it might have been some of his friends who were killed, and he needed an outlet for his feelings. That's really all it is...he's not being an attention whore or anything.
That person who posted the Iraq thing is a moron.
My deepest condolences to all the families who were affected by this tragedy.
Posted by: Christine | April 16, 2007 9:53 PM
Me too, Kat. I can't even begin to imagine what it was like to be there today, and for people to say those things to him ... well, they should be ashamed. The world today makes no sense.
Posted by: Leigh | April 17, 2007 2:24 AM
Leigh,
No it doesn't. It's so sad.
Posted by: kat | April 17, 2007 5:13 PM
Christine,
I read more of his LJ about yesterday. The media vultures were all through his comments. How pathetic.
Posted by: kat | April 17, 2007 5:19 PM