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CB123

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Virginia
« on: April 16, 2007, 07:31:52 PM »
Hi all,

I've been watching the news, off and on, today and keep thinking of those of you who are in Virginia.  I remember that a few weeks back, several of you were talking about living there, moving there, or having grown up there. 

Just wanted to tell you that my heart goes out to you all and your state.  Having kids on campus, I can imagine the fear and pain of the parents of these kids.  Much love to you all.

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Re: Virginia
« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2007, 07:43:38 PM »
CB,

I have a child at University and this is so sad such scary stuff.
My heart goes out to all the families.

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Re: Virginia
« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2007, 08:08:06 PM »
Awful stuff!!  Moon, you have a child at Virginia Tech!!  Yhowey!!!!  I don't think my friends from Virginia have kids there.  Why didn't they lock down that place after the first two murders.................?????They are going to get so much stuff!!
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« Reply #3 on: April 16, 2007, 08:37:07 PM »
Hey oc ,

I do have a child at University but not Virginia tech .
Another state
But those families  ..... I can not imagine such pain...
They should have done a lock down....


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Re: Virginia
« Reply #4 on: April 16, 2007, 10:58:55 PM »
My daughter just took a semester off and some kid fell into a lake in a drunken stupor and drowned.  It doesnt matter where you are - a murder can happen anywhere.
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Re: Virginia
« Reply #5 on: April 17, 2007, 11:19:03 AM »
My son lives in NYC and was attending college there during 9/11.  You can imagine what that was like to be calling him for hours and hours that day only to get a recording that said, "The number you are dialing cannot be reached due to a state of emergency in the area."  The recordings varied though out the day and you could tell the operators were making them on the spur of the moment and just saying what they could to explain what was happening.  We didn't talk to him until about 10 o'clock that night when he was able to call us.  It was the longest day.  He watched from a window of one of the campus buildings on a hill in Brooklyn as the towers came down.  When we talked to him at first, he was so quiet we could barely hear him.  We called him every day for several days until we could hear his voice gaining in strength and volume.  Then we thought he would be okay.  I was very worried that his depression would get out of control because of what happened.  Fortunately, he was both physically safe and emotionally okay.  I kept remembering 9/11 when we were watching the news last night about Va. Tech.  What a tragedy this is.

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Re: Virginia
« Reply #6 on: April 17, 2007, 12:52:46 PM »
PP,


I know what you mean.  I also kept thinking of 9/11 while watching the news.

I'm horrified.  I called my kids right away to tell them I love them.  Life is not to be taken for granted which I sometimes forget. 

Love
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« Reply #7 on: April 17, 2007, 05:47:37 PM »
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

and the shooter was a 'loner'


JUST AS I AM-------

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« Reply #8 on: April 17, 2007, 06:01:20 PM »
A friend's son is a dorm RA (resident advisor) at Va. Tech and was in the next building.

It's weighing very heavily in our little circle.

I believe this culture is devouring itself, and this is like (as someone said on NPR today) the Imus moment about gun violence.

Perhaps that is the only hope, that some serious reckoning with what the culture has become will begin.

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« Reply #9 on: April 17, 2007, 07:13:09 PM »
Not to worry CB,

Not all loners are mass murderers! I thought that was a stereotypical word! and covers many older senior citizens.

I am sorry you were 'alarmed'! ??

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« Reply #10 on: April 17, 2007, 07:19:57 PM »
It sounds like the shooter was seriously mentally ill.  I hope discussions will begin on how this country handles mental and emotional illness.  There were signs something was wrong with him for several years according to some articles I have read.

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Re: Virginia
« Reply #11 on: April 17, 2007, 08:32:43 PM »
I wasnt alarmed, Izzy. 

CB
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Re: Virginia
« Reply #12 on: April 18, 2007, 05:09:47 AM »
Watched Sky news where there was a professor of psychology intereviewd and he talked about NARCISSISTIC people in the context of the shooter.  The description of him was scary, loner, socially inept, blaming, angry......... now who does that remind me of!!


Heartfelt sympathy to anyone who is affected by this tragedy and the families.

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Re: Virginia
« Reply #13 on: April 18, 2007, 07:38:03 PM »
It was just announced, a short while ago, that the shooter had mailed a package to NBC News during those two hours between the dorm shootings and the Norris Hall shootings.  What little I saw struck me as a Narcissist IN THE EXTREME!!!  Even the newscasters were referring to "Narcissistic Injury".  They showed only a tiny portion of what they received while the FBI is analyzing the rest.  IT IS CHILLING!!!!!

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« Reply #14 on: April 18, 2007, 08:36:21 PM »
This young man held hatred ,rage and bitterness  in his heart ....................... and then pushed himself into madness.

So very very sad so very sad.This kind of rage is incomprehensible................

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