Today we are ALL Hokies. Remember those students and teachers who have been so tragically taken from this world and from their families. We cannot even begin to fathom what the families are going through right now and even in that, many already have forgiven their attacker. That takes strength and resolve. May we all show the same strength on this day and all of our days. When you lose someone you love, someone you would lose your own life for, it momentarily takes the winds out of your sails, and the air out of your lungs. It stings, it hurts, and we cry ten rivers for what could have been and more importantly, what should have been. Even as we move on, the pain is there, sometimes worse than in the beginning.
If you feel changes need to take place in our country, speak up. Do something about it. Talk to your local congressman and let your voice be heard. Today as we honor Virginia Tech and those who lost their lives on Monday April 16, 2007, we remember how special they were, how unique they were, and what a gift they were to us all; in big and small ways.
Today we are ALL Hokies as we stand up for what is right in our communities, our country, and our world. I will not tell you the exact message of this note as for everyone on an individual basis different things are important. I would like to thing the big things are important to us all; the music our children are subjected to, the extremely violent and unnecessarily so video games so easily available for those same children, and much stricter gun control.
Feel free to pass this around if you feel the message carries any chord of truth with you and yours.
If you feel changes need to take place in our country, speak up. Do something about it. Talk to your local congressman and let your voice be heard. Today as we honor Virginia Tech and those who lost their lives on Monday April 16, 2007, we remember how special they were, how unique they were, and what a gift they were to us all; in big and small ways.
Today we are ALL Hokies as we stand up for what is right in our communities, our country, and our world. I will not tell you the exact message of this note as for everyone on an individual basis different things are important. I would like to thing the big things are important to us all; the music our children are subjected to, the extremely violent and unnecessarily so video games so easily available for those same children, and much stricter gun control.
Feel free to pass this around if you feel the message carries any chord of truth with you and yours.
JM
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