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After the shooting,people volunteered to come to campus and placed flowers and gifts around the Hokie stone memorial site to remember the victims.

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A card with each victim's name and a flower.

Caption says:

"This letter was sent from an Amish woman who has, herself and within her community, experienced tremendous loss. It is often individuals such as these who feel the most need to…

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People tied yellow florets on the poles around the campus.

Photo taken April 19,2007

I was in college in the 1960s. During that wild decade, there were so many acts of violence that it felt like a time never experienced before and in many ways, it had never been known before. The assassinations, the war in far-off Viet Nam, the…

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On April 24, one week after the shooting, people hung numerous flags on the War Memorial Chapel to remember the victims

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These flags flew at half-staff in front of the Metropolition Art Museum in New York City the weekend after the shootings at Virginia Tech, showing national solidarity and support for the University.

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Flags at Blacksburg Baptist Church

Photo taken by Min Jae Lee, 9.18.2007

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The Blacksburg Baptist Church posted 32 flags on South Main in remembrance of the 32 victims.

Photo Courtesy of Patrick Donohoe

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On display at the Perspective Gallery.

This flag was flown at half-mast beside the Statue of Liberty and then sent to Virginia Tech by the Department of the Interior.

Paul Harris in Blacksburg
Sunday April 22, 2007
The Observer

America began to bury its dead yesterday from the Virginia Tech massacre that cost 33 lives - the worst mass-shooting in the country's modern history.
Three funerals of students…

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First pitch at Yankees vs. Hokies game.

Photo by George Norton.

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First memorial (near the War Memorial Chapel) that was made by the students on Monday evening (April 16th).

Photo courtesy of Ivan V. Morozov

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An orange and maroon ribbon with the words "In Loving Memory" adorns the front of a Blacksburg firetruck that was at the commemoration ceremony on 4/16/08.

GateHouse Media
Tue Apr 24, 2007, 10:41 AM CDT

BLACKSBURG, Va. -

A tragedy the magnitude of last week's mass murder in Blacksburg, Va., prompt most of us to ask serious questions. What compelled a student to kill 32 people on the Virginia…

By Brandon McGinley
Princetonian Columnist

As the epigraph for "The Brothers Karamazov," Fyodor Dostoevsky presented John 12:24:

"Verily, verily, I say unto you, except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone:…

Emergency notification system a main goal

By: Lisa Davis
Posted: 5/2/07

After Boston University felt the impact of several tragedies that brought into question the level of campus safety, officials say they will continue to review their safety…

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Final scoreboard at English field on March 18, 2008.

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By: Doug Gill
Posted: 5/7/07

I love British comedies. So I just had to see "Hot Fuzz" a couple weeks ago.

It's the latest action-comedy-murder-mystery-thriller from the makers of "Shaun of the Dead," directed by Edgar Wright and starring…

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View of English field during Yankees vs. Hokies game on March 18, 2008.


Photo by Roger Gupta.

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By PALMYRA COURIER-JOURNAL

Posted: Jun 25, 08:50 AM EDT

PALMYRA — "What can I do to help?"

That was the question on many local lips following the death of Mary Karen Read in the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University on April…
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