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I really don't know what to write about the Virginia Tech killings, except to say that it is terribly awful and terribly sad. I remember telling my Mom that I was surprised when I found my daughters school for kindergarden hhas automatic locks on the door from the first bell until school close.

I found this eulogy bittersweet, due to all the things I learned about the Holocaust. Made me imagien that this person survived all of those horrors until to be killed years later in another horror:

"Liviu Librescu, 76, was a Holocaust survivor who, his son said, will be remembered as a hero. He "blocked the doorway with his body and asked the students to flee," Joe Librescu told the AP. "Students started opening windows and jumping out." The elder Librescu, a professor at Virginia Tech, was recognized internationally for his research in aeronautical engineering, the head of the Engineering Science and Mechanics Department at Virginia Tech told the AP. He was born and received his advanced degrees in Romania.

At age 76, Librescu was among the thirty-two people who were murdered in the Virginia Tech massacre on April 16, 2007. He was killed during a class in the Norris Hall Engineering Building by a student (Cho Seung-hui, 23). Librescu held the door of his classroom shut while Cho was attempting to enter it; although he was shot through the door, he was able to prevent the gunman from entering the classroom until his students had escaped through the windows. A number of Librescu's students have called him a hero because of his actions, with one student, Asael Arad, saying that all the professor's students "lived because of him". Librescu's son, Joe, said he had received e-mails from several students who said he had saved their lives and regarded him as a hero whilst many newspapers also reported him as the hero of the massacre. He was killed on Yom HaShoah (the Holocaust Remembrance Day) in Israel and Judaism. He will be buried in Israel, where his son Arieh lives, according to his family wishes."