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posted April 22, 2007 03:39 AM |
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I kno there's already a thread on this topic, but it's important enough for 2 threads
Monday, April 16
7:15 a.m.:
A 9-1-1 emergency call to Virginia Tech Police reports a shooting at West Ambler Johnston Hall, leaving one person dead and one injured. The second person later died.
7:30 a.m.:
Investigators were following up on leads concerning a person of interest in relation to the double homicide. Investigators from VT PD and Blacksburg PD were actively following up on various leads. Meanwhile, Cho returns to his dorm room to re-load and leaves a "disturbing note."
8:00 a.m.:
Classes begin.
8:25 a.m.:
Virginia Tech leadership team meets to develop a plan on how to notify students of the homicide. Meanwhile, police stop the unidentified "person of interest" in a vehicle off-campus and detain him for questioning.
9:00 a.m.:
Virginia Tech leadership team is briefed on the latest events in the ongoing dormitory homicide investigation.
9:05 a.m.:
Cho seen in Norris Hall, an Engineering building. Cho chains the doors shut from the inside.
9:26 a.m.:
E-mails go out to campus staff, faculty, and students saying there has been a shooting on campus (in reference to the Dorm shooting).
9:45 a.m.:
Students in the engineering building Norris Hall call police to report more shots have been fired.[75] Cho kills thirty more people before turning the gun on himself. Police have breached the barricaded doors, but the shooter is dead before police arrive.
9:50 a.m.:
A second e-mail announcing: "A gunman is loose on campus. Stay in buildings until further notice. Stay away from all windows" is sent to all Virginia Tech email addresses. Loudspeakers broadcast a similar message.
10:17 a.m.:
A third e-mail cancels classes and advises people to stay where they are.
10:52 a.m.:
A fourth e-mail warns of a multiple shooting with multiple victims in Norris Hall, saying the shooter has been arrested and that police are hunting for a possible second shooter. The entrances to the campus buildings are locked.
12:00 p.m.:
At a press conference, authorities said there may have been more than twenty-one people killed and twenty-eight injured.
12:42 p.m.:
University President Charles Steger announces that police are releasing people from buildings and that counseling centers are being set up.
4:01 p.m.:
President Bush speaks from the White House regarding the shooting.
7:30 p.m.:
A final confirmation that there have been thirty-one deaths at Norris Hall, including the shooter.
Tuesday, April 17
9:15 a.m.:
Virginia Tech Police Department releases name of shooter as Cho Seung-Hui and confirms the death toll of 33.
9:30 a.m.:
Virginia Tech announces that classes would be canceled "for the remainder of the week to allow students the time they need to grieve and seek assistance as needed."
2:00 p.m.:
A convocation ceremony is held for the University community at the Cassell Coliseum.
8:00 p.m.:
A candlelight vigil is held on the University Drillfield.
..4.16.07.
keep the Virginia Tech Hokies in your prayers..
may the lord be with the families of lost & injured ones.
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william
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posted April 22, 2007 04:54 AM |
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Thanks for putting this here, but this isn't important enough t have it's own thread, a duplicate thread for the same matter which is being discussed in another thread.
Just copy this stuff to the other thread, no point in having 2 threads around about the same thing.
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Demon_Child
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posted April 22, 2007 05:02 AM |
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well.....that's your opinion....but I believe that it is a very important subject. 33 people died on that day.
I think I'm just gonna keep this here.
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william
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posted April 22, 2007 05:04 AM |
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I mean, this is important, but there was no point in making a thread which already exists.
This is important stuff, but no need to make another thread for it.
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posted April 22, 2007 01:51 PM |
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well.....that's your opinion....but I believe that it is a very important subject. 33 people died on that day.
I think I'm just gonna keep this here.
thousands of people die everyday unnecessarily
according to that logic there would be hundreds of threads created daily, the other side would fill up pretty quickly
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posted April 22, 2007 02:13 PM |
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well.....that's your opinion....but I believe that it is a very important subject. 33 people died on that day.
33 died in america.
In the same week, over 500 died in Iraq
In the same week, thousands of species went extinct due to deforestation, polution, or other human induced factors.
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posted April 22, 2007 02:16 PM |
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33 died in america.
In the same week, over 500 died in Iraq
In the same week, thousands of species went extinct due to deforestation, polution, or other human induced factors.
yeah but this is more important because we know these people, oh wait, no we dont
theyre closer to us, hmmm... not really
well, theyre american. so there. that's why the other ppl dying doesnt count 
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posted April 22, 2007 02:47 PM |
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well.....that's your opinion....but I believe that it is a very important subject. 33 people died on that day.
33 died in america.
In the same week, over 500 died in Iraq
A better example: In the same DAY, 40000 died in africa due to starvation.
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posted April 22, 2007 04:27 PM |
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I'll may be a bit cynical.
The reason we discuss the death of these people(who are for sure much more less than 40000 people dying daily in africa or in Iraq or in other part of the world)is cause that is not happening every day.
Is the way these people died.Not the amount.
We all know that life has not the same value in all parts of the world.
But also if i think with your thinking i have to say this:WHY we "all" forgot the victims of the war in Yugoslavia(there were much more victims than 9/11) but we all remember victims of 9/11?
Yeah we know the answer.Cause a hit in USA doesn't happen every day.
A war,is happening in a much more usual base for sure.
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Demon_Child
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posted April 23, 2007 12:51 AM |
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that is one very TRUE statement.
That's sort of what I guess I'm trying to make a point of.
It's not every day that we have the columbine attack. not every day a crazed man goes to school and just decides to shoot everyone.
I understand every day people are dying in Africa, and other countries....and I pray for them all the time...but this is a thing that just recently happened and some of my friends had family members or friends who died....so I just wanted to make a little tribute to those loved ones.
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posted April 23, 2007 11:01 AM |
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[offtopic]There is no reason for a "thread police". Mods will decide if the threads belong here or not. Better try to say something refering to the topic instead of things like "Repost", "Wastelands" or similar...[/offtopic]
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posted April 23, 2007 02:35 PM |
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But also if i think with your thinking i have to say this:WHY we "all" forgot the victims of the war in Yugoslavia
I didn't... Mostly because I was there though... 
Some friends of my father died in the bombing of the national television building... If he hadn't taken a night off he'd die too... So uhm he counts himself sort of lucky
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I understand every day people are dying in Africa, and other countries....and I pray for them all the time...
The main problem that people are dying is that other people are simply praying for them.
It would be way better to actually do something. Go out in the streets. Make protests. Refuse to join the army. Desert. That's what my people did, and finally broke free from dictatorship. As much as possible.
It would have been much easier to pray and let him commit war crimes on other peoples while repressing everyone against him but we chose the thornier way and made a difference. Our country is small and doesn't have much influence, but it helped us who live in it.
In systems in which it is considered honorable and right to simply stand by, pay taxes and do nothing, while firearms can be bought at the local supermarket and war is declared on countries for no reason whatsoever, of course there will always be people who go nuts and start shooting.
But all my sympathies go to the parents whose children were victims of all that.
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posted April 23, 2007 02:38 PM |
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its ok if thousands of people die every day but if a few americans die on the odd occasion thats more important. got it. 
just saying, dw.
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Demon_Child
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posted April 24, 2007 02:54 AM |
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no. that's not ok. I think the point is being misunderstood....and that could be partly my fault. It's very important that there are others dying in other countries.....and we honor them...You can't tell me you've never heard of all the disaster relief programs.....the walk to fight aids in Africa....all sorts of things...All I was doing was trying to take some time to honor these people.
If you have such a problem with me doing this and "forgetting" the others who died in different attacks....then YOU do something about it. Don't yell at me for not including them. I made this thread for the sole purpose of honoring these victims...I'm not forgetting the others or saying they're not important. Believe me.....I think they are. I've also done my part to help them....I went around in my neighborhood and collected money and donated it to help the people dying from diseases and famine and all sorts of things.
Please don't yell at me for not listing all the other victims too...Go make your own thread to specially honor them too.
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posted April 24, 2007 10:51 AM |
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no, its cool, i get it
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Demon_Child
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posted April 25, 2007 12:22 AM |
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thanks so much.
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posted April 26, 2007 08:00 AM |
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I think we've worn out our sympathy card as Americans, considering the last time the world showered us with it.
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posted April 26, 2007 08:37 AM |
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maybe its the new water restrictions atm, cutting down on the whole shower thing
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posted April 26, 2007 10:23 PM |
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Sad but I have been desensitized to all of this, we can't stop the compulsion that hits certain people at any given day. I felt for the victims and their family's now I just turn it off.
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