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jak
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since 2007-03-14

Posts 85
Charlotte, NC

0 posted 2007-04-16 05:32 PM

(a horrible day, work in progress, felt the need to get these initial thoughts out)

A stubborn soul sought an epic end
Spreading hokie stone along with fragile skin
Norris Hall filled with fight and fear
Terror... the flight, then sorrow so clear

In Blacksburg a man fell, from soft sanity
to the depth of despair, to calm calamity
The deaths... no reason, only Satan's seed
Spilling shock, over long walks, as lost students bleed

Jak
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Gentle Spirit
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since 2000-10-09

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1 posted 2007-04-16 06:13 PM

you penned this perfectly. Such a horrible event.

The Lady
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since 2005-12-26

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The Southwest

2 posted 2007-04-16 09:26 PM

Spilling shock... truly

A Romantic Heart
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since 1999-09-03

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Forever In Your Heart

3 posted 2007-04-16 09:52 PM

I wish I could just give them all a big hug, I live close by , within two hours.
I have visited many times, there is no place sacred anymore, it can happen anywhere, anytime, we just need to be prepared and put that into our minds, no one is exempt.

Thanks for Posting this!

J. M. Barrie, the playwright, may have said it best when he wrote, “God gave us memories so that we might have roses in December.”

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

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Canada eh.

4 posted 2007-04-16 10:21 PM

Indeed such a sad day jak.
You captured the massacre well.
Keeping the victims and their families in my prayers.

Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

5 posted 2007-04-17 09:46 AM

Jason,

thank you.

Startime55
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since 2003-04-05

Posts 2148
Alberta, Canada

6 posted 2007-04-17 04:37 PM

Your words speak well what many of us are feeling...thank you for responing with this poem to this tragedy....*Big Hugs*

scorpio
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since 2002-10-02

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right...there

7 posted 2007-04-17 05:05 PM

Well done Jak. Such a tragedy....

believe in what your heart feels...

miscellanea
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since 2004-06-24

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OH

8 posted 2007-04-17 09:22 PM

very well penned.

Midnitesun

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Gaia

9 posted 2007-04-18 07:17 AM

Tragic but not completely unpredictable when we still allow someone with an apparently documented penchant for unstable/violent talk to walk in and purchase weapons, then allow that same person to walk onto an open campus and commit two hours of psychotic behavior.
In those tragic two hours, it boiled down to a lack of communication....for all our advancement in technological communications, we fail miserably at the most basic levels.
As another already commented, you penned this tragedy well.

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