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April 16, 2007

MOMENT OF SILENCE




Filed under: Uncategorized  by Orson Swindle

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15 Responses to “MOMENT OF SILENCE”



  1. 1

    Very Old Lady Gator says:

    Goose bumps…A touching tribute.

    Bless them all and their families.

    April 16th, 2007 at 8:50 pm

  2. 2

    Alex says:

    you guys did a wonderful thing that you didnt have to do, i found myself listening to some comedy on my XM radio today and had to change the channel is just didnt seem right to laugh today when so many tears had been shed.

    April 16th, 2007 at 9:57 pm

  3. 3

    MCab says:

    Great tribute.

    I met the Hokies when they were in town for the Sugar Bowl. Classy fans indeed.

    April 16th, 2007 at 10:09 pm

  4. 4

    SeaTrojan says:

    Very dignified.

    April 16th, 2007 at 10:22 pm

  5. 5

    Smyth says:

    Amen

    April 16th, 2007 at 10:47 pm

  6. 6

    a5ehren says:

    For anyone in the ATL area, there will be a remembrance ceremony on the GT campus at the Campanile (tall metal sculpture outside the student center) at 4 PM.

    Hate to be crass, but is anyone else seeing a cigar ad below the post?

    April 17th, 2007 at 12:11 am

  7. 7

    cgb says:

    I am a casual reader of your blog although a first time commenter and as a life long Hokie am glad to see you take the day off from something serious and try to help.

    April 17th, 2007 at 12:24 am

  8. 8

    rt says:

    yah, there isn’t much to laugh about yesterday’s events. my heart goes out to the families.

    April 17th, 2007 at 3:31 am

  9. 9

    kleph says:

    Liviu Librescu, 76, engineering science and mathematics lecturer.

    Kevin Granata, engineering science and mechanics professor.

    Ryan Clark, 22, of Martinez, Ga., biology and English major.

    G.V. Longanathan, 51, civil and environmental engineering professor.

    via The Associated Press

    April 17th, 2007 at 5:54 am

  10. 10

    Mike says:

    To reiterate what many have said…we are all Hokies today. All love and prayers are with Virginia Tech.

    April 17th, 2007 at 8:45 am

  11. 11

    Justin says:

    I feel bad for the family and friends of the people who were murdered at what is supposed to be a safe place. I also hate it when the gunman kills himself before the police get a crack at him. If this was a different time, I would have hung his lifeless body on of the open fields and have students, teachers and family take turns with a baseball bat to the gunman’s body.

    April 17th, 2007 at 9:48 am

  12. 12

    italiangator says:

    Yes, #11, that is a sentiment that is the basis of a healthy and violence-free society. Kudos for taking the road less traveled.

    April 17th, 2007 at 10:26 am

  13. 13

    Cruzer says:

    I can’t begin to imagine the heartache being felt in Virginia today. When trying to make sense of something like this I’m reminded of the Gertude Stein quote:
    “There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.”
    Some may find comfort in not asking the unanswerable. Sometimes I do.

    April 17th, 2007 at 11:03 am

  14. 14

    Rusty says:

    Too bad we can’t take the lead of the ancient greeks on this one. Quoting now:

    -The Temple of Artemis (in Greek — Artemision, and in Latin — Artemisium), also known less precisely as Temple of Diana, was a temple dedicated to Artemis completed, in its most famous phase, around 550 BC at Ephesus (in present-dayTurkey) under the Achaemenid dynasty of the Persian Empire. Nothing remains of the temple— not the first on its site— which was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

    The temple of Artemis at Ephesus was destroyed on July 21, 356 BC in an act of arson committed by Herostratus. According to the story, his motivation was fame at any cost, thus the term herostratic fame.

    “A man was found to plan the burning of the temple of Ephesian Diana so that through the destruction of this most beautiful building his name might be spread through the whole world.”
    Source: Valerius Maximus, VIII.14.ext.5
    The Ephesians, outraged, announced that Herostratus’ name never be recorded. Strabo later noted the name, which is how we know today.-

    Damn Strabo.

    April 17th, 2007 at 11:23 am

  15. 15

    Bill Sorenson says:

    Your University of Florida will be holding a candlelight vigil tonight at 8:00 PM. My Gator wife and I will be there. Many thanks to our friends in Gainesville.

    Bill Sorenson (VT Class of 1993)

    April 18th, 2007 at 1:15 pm

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