I wrote extensively last year after the tragedy at Blacksburg, Virginia’s Virginia Tech campus. It hit home with me as I knew children of friends who attended Virginia Tech. I had been to the campus while in college. Northern Illinois’s tragedy hits as hard but not because I know any of the students at the… Continue reading Northern Illinois University
I know that it is truly too soon to tell if the slaughter on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia will have enough influence to change the way America thinks about guns, the second amendment and gun control. Worse, I don’t know that any national tragedy has ever permanently change the way the US,… Continue reading Will Virginia Tech’s tragedy change the way a nation thinks?
I was watching The Early Show this morning on CBS. It tends to normally be more fluff than news so I don’t feel that it is a bad way to start the morning as my 12 year old is getting ready for school. Recently, Lou Dobbs – who has a show on CNN – has… Continue reading Commentary on College Life
Going to Virginia Tech for football is one of the great memories of my college days. Today, I am thinking of Virginia Tech in a different way. I am sitting here trying to figure out a good way to get a hold of a friend from church to see if her daughter is okay. I… Continue reading Tragedy in Blacksburg
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