Yesterday morning, we went to the Bureau. The people there explained what they did on the day of April 16th, 2007, when the shooting occured.
I was filled with tears when we listened to them tell us what they did. It felt like we had to relive the moment all over again. 2 black... 10black.... 30 black...
We then went to the scene of the crime. We drove from the New River Valley Bureau to Virginia Tech. As we passed there were signs saying "We are Virginia Tech".
Parking at Virginia Tech is infamously difficult so we had to drive around for a short while to find a spot. Then we walked to West Ambler Johnson Hall: the site where the first shooting occured. The crime was done quiety. No one knew there was someone shot on the fourth floor of their dorm.
Then, we walked to Harper Hall, where the killer: Cho Seung-Hui lived. He lived so close to West AJ. After he killed the first two people, he walked back to his dorm, got his letters, WENT TO THE POST OFFICE, and then went on a shooting spree.
West AJ Hall is between Harper Hall, where Cho lived, and the post office. He probably just walked through when the police were investigating. If the police had caught him before, they could've saved the other 30 innocent people that lost their lives.
Finally, we went to Norris Hall: the site of the massacre.
At first we stood far away from the Building. The photographer who shot the world-famous photo, Alan Kim, explained to us what he did, and why he stood so far away. Then he said we could look through the camera he shot the picture with.
All this time, 2 Korean ladies were filming us for a Korean-News report.
We walked down the field to Norris Hall.
There were 33 stones placed in front of Norris Hall. Each stone had a desceased person's name on it. The only stone without a name is a small tarnished on at the end of the row. That stone is for Cho Seung-Hui, the killer.
The Virginia Tech incident is a very sad event.
Going back there made me relive the horror.
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Please check out the link to this blog in support of converting parts of Norris Hall into the Institute for Transformative Learning
http://norrishall.blogspot.com/
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