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Originally posted by ReenTeenTeen There is a Russian proverb for people like that: "There are so little fools in this world, but they are spread around the world so correcly, that you run into them on every step you make."

It couldn't be any truer.
I am glad I surround myself with people who help me through this crazy world.

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Originally posted by Stassi Wow, im more shocked that the news did not mention this at all as it is a true display of courage and character. After all the shit he has already gone thru in his life he still sacrificed himself for the good of others. Aside from that I hope you are ok..

I've seen it on the news a few times. what a brave man, in every sense of the word.

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One of the professors that was lost. It just really touched me to see that he was one of the top five biomechanic researcher in the country, working on stuff for cerebral palsy:

Entire Article:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18143312/

Kevin Granata, 45, an engineering science and mechanics professor who was married and had three children. He had served in the military and later conducted orthopedic research in hospitals before going to Virginia Tech, where he and his students researched muscle and reflex response and robotics.

Virginia Tech Department chief Ishwar Puri said Granata was one of the top five biomechanics researchers in the country, working on movement dynamics in cerebral palsy.

Engineering professor Demetri Telionis said Granata was successful, but also kind. "With so many research projects and graduate students, he still found time to spend with his family and he coached his children in many sports and extracurricular activities," Telionis said. "He was a wonderful family man. We will all miss him dearly."

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Originally posted by phuzzyfish12 Entire Article:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18143312/

man....reading that article was pretty difficult, especially with the pictures of all the ppl who died.

^^^ I know I saw it this morning and I couldn't even look at the pictures it was to hard.

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Originally posted by jerZ07002 THis is the website of those sick fuks where it says they are going to protest. They also protested at the funerals of those little amish girls. What horrible people. http://www.godhatesamerica.com/ btw, Greedy, glad to hear you and your friends are okay.

These fucking assholes fall under the same category of the monster that killed all these people......what the fuck makes people think in such ways???

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Originally posted by vtec junkie These fucking assholes fall under the same category of the monster that killed all these people......what the fuck makes people think in such ways???

Almost worse in my mind....its like they're twisting the knife in the hearts of the distraught family members. It's terrible. Laws should be made to prevent such things.

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Originally posted by vtec junkie ^ It is....I can't believe the guy had time to shoot so many people. It deff did not sound like an automatic weapon....he had to re-load at some point....unless he was carrying more than one weapon.

me catched a few cnn comments yesterday and they said he had 2 9mm handguns and that one of them was a common 92fs. i dont know how to say it to not praise him or to not sound harsh. but thats incredible...
the chief (?) of the hospital said, they have noone in there who not atleast got injured from 3 bullet impacts...
killing 32 ppl and wound (how much are confirmed atm?) around 20 other ppl with 2 berettas (remember there are 'only' 15rounds per clip each) is like, wtf, how could he be trained so precisly?
i mean, an unmodified 92fs is abselutly not even close to the type of firearm that could be called a massdestruction handgun ...

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Originally posted by jerZ07002 ... Lastly, regardless if he was defending a position, he was using a tragedy to promote his position.

which was the most pervert comment i heared out of the whole virginia-tech case.
its just so wrong, imagine f.e. someone say: "everyone has the right for alkohol, i like alkohol, but ofcourse the laws must be followed!..."
on a crimescene where a group of kindergarten kids where killed by an boozed teenager street race! he would be slaughtered while not even finished the sentence...

anyway, the australien minister (?) had summed it up pretty precisly on the gun/law-siutation in the states. its just as dishonourable as these godhatesamerica sect...

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Originally posted by Stassi what about people who walk around with tons of cash because they deal in a, you know, cash business. If I were walking around with 10k in my pocket on the way to the bank you bet your ass I would want some sort of a concealed weapon.

dude u are hollywoodized

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Originally posted by Miss Bliss So that you could... shoot... and possibly kill... someone... and possibly innocent bystanders... because he was trying to rob you? Do you live in Gothamland? A little bit implausible, puzzling, and completely off-topic anyway...

MUUUUHHAHAHAA lol @ gothamland
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I send my prayers and condolences to the friends and family of the victims of this terrible tradgedy.

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Originally posted by Greedy VT is a great school with great ppl. Ask anyone thats come down here, theyll say that we're a lot of fun and laid back. Please show some support for us down here and keep us in your prayers!

Pete...I'm glad to know you're ok!

My thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and to the friends and families of the victims of this massacre.

I never imagined that something so terrible would ever happen at Virginia Tech!

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Here is the full article on Liviu Librescu. This is a fine example of someone who was heroic and selfless.

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Holocaust survivor killed in Va shooting
By MATTI FRIEDMAN, Associated Press Writer
Tue Apr 17, 6:02 PM ET

Liviu Librescu survived the Nazi Holocaust. He died trying to keep a gunman from shooting his students in a killing spree at Virginia Tech — a heroic feat later recounted in e-mails from students to his wife.

Librescu, an aeronautics engineer and teacher at the school for 20 years, saved the lives of several students by using his body to barricade a classroom door before he was gunned down in Monday's massacre, which coincided with Holocaust Remembrance Day.

His son, Joe Librescu, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that his mother received e-mails from students shortly after learning of her husband's death.

"My father blocked the doorway with his body and asked the students to flee," Joe Librescu said in a telephone interview from his home outside of Tel Aviv. "Students started opening windows and jumping out."

Joe Librescu told CNN that one of the e-mails was from the last student left in the room. The student said he looked back and saw his teacher struggling to hold the door, and "he was torn between jumping out the window and coming and helping my dad."

"He chose, and possibly made the right decision, to jump out the window," the son said.

The gunman, identified as 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui, an English major and native of South Korea, killed 32 people before committing suicide, officials said, in what was the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history.

Librescu, 76, had known hardship since his childhood.

When Romania joined forces with Nazi Germany in World War II, he was first interned at a labor camp in Transnistria and then deported along with his family and thousands of other Jews to a ghetto in the Romanian city of Focsani, his son said.

According to a report compiled by the Romanian government in 2004, between 280,000 and 380,000 Jews were killed by Romania's Nazi-allied regime during the war.

"We were in Romania during the Second World War, and we were Jews there among the Germans, and among the anti-Semitic Romanians," Marlena Librescu told Israeli Channel 10 TV on Tuesday.

After the war, Librescu became a successful engineer under the postwar communist government and worked at Romania's aerospace agency. But his career was stymied in the 1970s because he refused to swear allegiance to dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's regime, his son said, and he was later fired when he requested permission to move to Israel.

After years of government refusal, according to his son, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin personally intervened to get the family an emigration permit. They moved to Israel in 1978.

Librescu left Israel for Virginia in 1985 for a year sabbatical, but eventually made the move permanent, said Joe Librescu, who himself studied at Virginia Tech from 1989-1994. The elder Librescu, who was an engineering and math lecturer at the school, published extensively and received numerous awards for his work.

"His work was his life in a sense," his son said.

In Romania, the academic community mourned Librescu's death.

"It is a great loss," said Ecaterina Andronescu, rector of the Polytechnic University in Bucharest, where Librescu graduated in 1953. "We have immense consideration for the way he reacted and defended his students with his life."

At the university, where Librescu received an honorary degree in 2000, his picture was placed on a table and a candle was lit. People lay flowers nearby.

Professor Nicolae Serban Tomescu described Librescu as "strong and dignified."

"He had a huge affection for his students and he sacrificed his life for them," Tomescu told AP Television News.

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