The Virginia Tech Community gathered yesterday, to memorialize victims of the mass shooting on campus, as it has every year.
It’s been 10 years since a shooter killed 32 people and injured 17 at Virginia Tech. University President, Timothy Sands, like people all over the country and around world, heard about the tragedy from a distance.
“Language is limited. It is not always possible to adequately put into words our feelings of loss, sorrow and empathy for those who are suffering still but though words may fail us, the Virginia Tech community will never fail to stand in support of each other.”
Remembrance events have been going on for weeks. On Sunday, just after midnight, the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets lit a memorial candle and stood guard for 32 minutes, one for each person killed. At day’s end, they carried it back to where a permanent stone monument now stands. It was inspired by the impromptu memorial students created in the hours immediately after the tragedy when students placed 32 Hokie stones, a symbol of campus solidarity, on the drill field as a gesture of mourning.
