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Virginia Tech students paid a solemn tribute to their slain classmates Monday, pausing for a moment of silence and holding tearful remembrances for the 32 students murdered by a student gunman one week ago.

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evelyna
April 23, 2007, 9:50 a.m.
It is time to move on they have a bright future in head of them and lawsuit money coming from the tech.
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SonOfTheMask
April 23, 2007, 10 a.m.
Slightly different, but the Kent State shootings have reverberated through the decades. Kent State students there at that time still remember it vividly. No offense, but "time to move on" is not going to help put this tragedy to bed any time in the near future for these folks.
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mjims
April 23, 2007, 10:21 a.m.
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WCFIELDS
April 23, 2007, 11:40 a.m.
"I thought last week as time goes by that I could forget this tragic incident," graduate student Sijung Kim said. "But as time goes by I find I cannot forget."
The same may be said for those close to the nearly 100 times as many U.S.A. young people killed in Iraq and Afganistan.
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WCFIELDS
April 23, 2007, 11:42 a.m.
Has everyone forgotten about the Very Serious situation with Don Imus?! Where's Al? Where's Jesse?
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protoham
April 23, 2007, 1:18 p.m.
It is time to move forward. Remember the past, but don't get stuck there. I remember losing my friends in the Vietnam war. Not quite as close to home as this, but I miss them just the same.
Hokie '76
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Love12806
April 23, 2007, 3:25 p.m.
ok to everyone that thinks they shold just move on... yeah your right but it has only been a week. people need sometime to morn. a fellow student of theirs went on a rampage and killed 32 of their friends... how can they move on. insted of sitting at your computer saying how we should move on why dont you send some condolences to thoes who were affected...
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mallurajt
April 23, 2007, 4:26 p.m.
Cho Family Finally made a comment to little to late. The pain they must feel is awful but the pain their brat caused is much worse than what they are feeling. Hey Cho's what took you this long to make a statement?? What took you so long to throw your psycho son in mental ward?
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moot51
April 23, 2007, 10:15 p.m.
It's not fair to attack the Cho family. You have to remember they are dealing with the enormous disaster their son caused. The also are dealing with the loss of their son. Their greif is just as real as the greif other families involved are feeling. Sometimes it takes time to be able to talk. I think they are painfully aware that nothing they could say or do will ever be enough to compensate for what their son did. They are in just as much a state of shock as everyone else. Give them a break. They did no wrong.
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xtaylor0022x
April 24, 2007, 12:18 a.m.

mallurajt...im just gonna be up front with you, that was a stupid thing to say.
moot, i couldn't have said what you did any better. you say it all my friend.
it's only been a week guys....time will heal this tragedy on its own. it will take a few months of crying everyday, and memorial services until these families move into another stage of coping with this tragic event.
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evelyna
April 24, 2007, 1:36 a.m.
Education? Asians are suppose to be the most intelligent of all ethnic groups.
I believe his parents ignored his problems because it would humilate them and bring them" dishonor." Certainly they noticed he did not bring friends home. What was their reaction when he was taunted in school?
Yes, it is certainly time to move on in a week. When people are fired they are expected to seek new work within that week.
What about people who have chronically ill kids or a missing child? They are expected to go to work everyday and carry on.
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CatholicRedneck
April 24, 2007, 3:49 a.m.
Let's stop pretending that we mourn the deaths of these students as much as we would if, say, our pet hamster dies. Real people only mourn when someone they know and care about are hurt. Yeah, it's a shame these students were murdered by an evil man; but don't pretend you feel sorrow. Sympathy? Absolutely. Sorrow? No.
And what is it with these neo-pagan memorials to the slain? Folks, in this vale of tears, horrible things are going to happen to you. If your focus is limited to the horizon of this world - well, it's no wonder you're going to collapse in a puddle of tears unless a grief counselor is there to hold your hand.
A better idea is to stick with the centuries old traditions of Christian liturgy. They were developed over time by people who suffered as much, if not worse, as we do. Christian ritual works, folks.
What degenerate, contemptible crybabies we've become. Imagine if a foreign army was doing to us what we're doing to Iraq -
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CatholicRedneck
April 24, 2007, 3:57 a.m.
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namely, conquer us to steal our natural resources, use depleted uranium and white phosphorus to kill us (and keep on killing us), and calls any man who dares to resist a "terrorist". Would there, indeed, be any American willing to take up arms? Or would we need grief counselors and therapists as we bawl our eyes out? Whatever else they are the Iraqis are fighters. And they don't set up neo-pagan memorials to their slain; they rely on their centuries old Muslim rituals.
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Readerwriter
April 24, 2007, 11:32 a.m.
Medical literature tells us that the grieving process is usually three years. The first year is introspective, concentrated on memories, regrets, acceptance. The second and third years are about moving out and moving on, making decisions and accepting that we have been separated from them. We will never forget them. They become integrated into our life here on earth without them. They cheer us on from a higher place.
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moot51
April 26, 2007, 11 a.m.
Education? Asians are suppose to be the most intelligent of all ethnic groups.
We can't stereotype them just because they are Asians. Yes, statistically they are the better educated group, but you have to remember that in any type of survey there is a high side and a low side. The number used is the average. People are people, and that's just about all you can say for it. Everyone, if you dig deep enough, has some kind of fault. I don't walk on water, or claim to be able to. I am human, and humans fail. Some can handle their failures and some can't.