This morning we woke up to news that NBC had received a package from the psycho who murdered all those people at VA Tech. I couldn’t believe they would give him the press he desired and show such horrific images.
Well, I just checked out my myspace page & I’d received a bulletin about VA Tech, and opened it. It had a video and pictures!
C’mon people – don’t give this guy any more time! The time now should be for the victims and their families. We should not be focusing on the pictures of the carnage … but rather courage.
Like this hero – Professor Liviu Librescu, who stood in the doorway to allow his students to escape. He was shot five times, but twenty students escaped because of him.
(quoted from the NEW YORK TIMES )
“Speaking to a reporter by telephone from Israel, Professor Librescu’s son, Yossi Librescu, 40, a computer engineer, said he took some solace in the appreciation being expressed for his father.
‘He was passionate about life,’ Mr. Librescu said. ‘He had no fear of death.’
He said that his father was born in Romania in 1930. After surviving the Holocaust, Mr. Librescu said, his father became a refusenik in Romania and lost his job as an aerospace engineer. But in 1976, Liviu Librescu secretly published a book in Norway that advanced a theory of aerospace technology that grabbed the attention of others in the field. In 1978, after lobbying by groups in Israel, he was permitted to leave Romania and settle there. He began teaching at Virginia Tech in 1985, university officials said.
Mr. Librescu said that the bucolic environs of Blacksburg provided a respite from the rigors of his father’s earlier life. His house was built on the edge of a forest and he took long walks daily, enjoying nature. He listened to classical music and settled into the calm, productive rhythms of his new existence.
‘He found Virginia to be a place that allowed him to be inspired,’ Mr. Librescu said.”
