Hokie tears

I used to like seeing or hearing about Virginia Tech in the news. That usually meant our sports teams were doing well, or perhaps one of the colleges was ranked in a list that some magazine had compiled. I can remember during my time there screaming for us to get more attention because we all knew our football team was good, but no one else knew because who had ever really heard of our little university with the long name tucked away in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Southwest Virginia?

Well, everyone knows who we are now.

Hokie Tears

Yes, people in the sports world have known about us for some time now, but now Virginia Tech will be remembered forever, spoken about in the same sentence as many other tragedies that have befallen this
nation. We are now very famous in a way that makes me sick to my stomach – infamous as it were.

It’s been eleven years since I was a student at Virginia Tech, and I remember those days fondly. I still keep in regular contact with fraternity brothers and friends and try to visit whenever I can. My sophomore year was spent on campus in West AJ, the same dorm where this nightmare started yesterday morning. I lived on the first floor on the side closest to the Cochrane dorm. I’ve walked down that hall since then and memories from that year flash back in my mind, and I usually smile and hide a chuckle. Different kinds of memories will flood the minds of people walking down those halls now.

I made the walk over to Norris for various classes in that building, and I even recall having one on the second floor. I cannot imagine being there yesterday morning; it’s difficult to imagine why anyone would ever do such a terrible thing to innocent people.

My prayers are going out to all affected by this tragedy; my heart aches for you. May God grant peace to all who are suffering, and may He lay his hand on my beloved university during this difficult time.


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