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Students of Virginia Tech attended all the classes on the 5th anniversary of a gruesome mass shooting where a student shot down 32 people. According to the university administration, keeping the institute open on the anniversary is just another way to pay tribute to all the lives lost on April 16, 2007.
Provost Mark McNamee, who chaired a committee that planned memorial events in the years after the shooting, said: “Their passion for education, their desire to do good in the world, their commitment to their disciplines come through so strongly that we felt being in classes was one special way of remembering them onward.”
Freshman Jessie McNamara, who lost her friends during the shootout, still remembers the incident. She says it was really difficult, but she has gotten through it. She said her prayers at the April 16 Memorial on the Blacksburg, Virginia, campus Monday morning.
The university lightened a ceremonial candle at midnight that will remain lit for 24 hours. Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell is likely to speak at a memorial on Monday night before the candle is blown out.
Five years ago, a mentally disturbed Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui Cho took 30 lives and injured dozens of people before fatally shooting himself. The incident alarmed universities all over the United States to improve their security systems while the Congress passed a law making it more difficult for mentally unstable people to purchase weapons.
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