To the families and friends who lost loved ones my heart cries for you. May your Guardian Angels wrap their wings around you, hold you, comfort you and wipe your tears.
To those of you who criticized the Hokie cheer at the Convocation on Tuesday - you don't understand the need to come together, be strong and united as a group do you? I was in tears after I watched students, faculty and visitor unite in one come voice to rise above this tragedy.
To those of you who are criticizing the killer's writing abilities after reading his writings* - you have missed the point. Something extremely bad happened to this young man - I'd guess around when he was 13. He was probably sexually abused. Does that excuse his behavior - hell no! But it would explain his writing style to those of you so bent on ripping it up. What ever happened to him caused him to be emotionally "stuck" at the age of the event that happened to him. It caused him to withdraw from society felling damaged and unworthy.
Don't try to blame guns or video games for this. Look into his childhood. Find out why he is disillusioned with his religion - what happened to cause him to lose faith. Finding these answers won't bring back the 32 people who lost their lives in the senseless act, but if it help to understand the minds of others who could also follow this path, then please learn from it.
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*APRIL 17--The college student responsible for yesterday's Virginia Tech slaughter was referred last year to counseling after professors became concerned about the violent nature of his writings, as evidenced in a one-act play obtained by The Smoking Gun. The play by Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old English major, was submitted last year as part of a short story writing class. Entitled "Richard McBeef," Cho's bizarre play features a 13-year-old boy who accuses his stepfather of pedophilia and murdering his father. A copy of the killer's play can be found below. The teenager talks of killing the older man and, at one point, the child's mother brandishes a chain saw at the stepfather. The play ends with the man striking the child with "a deadly blow."
From The Smoking Gun http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0417071vtech1.html
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