Lives Lost - Lives Shattered

My prayers are with the family and friends of this wonderful young person.

Our prayers and sympathy are with all the families of those lost in this tragic event and with all the students, staff and faculy who are left to carry on without their peers at Virginia Tech. Our sincere condolences, from the staff and students at the
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University of Texas at El Paso

What an incredible loss of life. Know that my family and the whole nation is praying for the tremendous amount of healing that will take place in the coming months and years..you will not be forgotten. May God be with the victims and their families and the Nation!

my heart goes out to all that lost a love one i pray that the victims
of this stupid ack can once live a normal life. god bless and my love i send to u perry depaul of california

May the Lord Jesus give you peace and comfort in this time of so much hurt and pain. God bless you

i hile so sorry

This is truly one of the saddest tragedies I've ever seen. My family and I are sending our deepest condolences and prayers to the family and friends of all of these professors and young people. I am so saddened by this all I can do is shake my head in disbelief. I cannot imagine the depth of despair that is being felt by the families. May God bless and give you strength beyond what is normal for the days ahead. I'm so sorry.

My prayers are with the family of this young person in their great time of need. God Bless

Our thoughts and prayers are with these families. Know that God is with you in your time of need, and only He can take your pain and change it into something beautiful. May you feel the love and support from those around you and may the wonderful memories help guide you during this tragic time.

I understand how the VT students & families feel concerning loss of life, but I need to know the details of what happend to continue to exist in my world.

I need to teach my children that the world doesn't always make sense and that mental illness must be taken serious. It isn't something that should be dismissed. There is underlying horror in this event that can't be ignored - males that are bullied by their peers.

I'm a mother of two college graduates (one male and one female) and I have two girls still in high school. I hope my children never find themselves in a situation as dangerous as what happened in VT. I hope they do not slip into mental illness. I hope that those that are feeling lost find their way.

My sympathies go to every family touched by this tragedy. There is no reason.

And my thanks goes out to the media for warning me.

I have watched this since it started and all I've seen is about the killer.. Please stop!!!

I would like for once like to hear something wonderful about everyone who was killed on this terrible day.. I hope ABC News plan on doing this for the family..

My prayers go out to all the familes who lost a loved one.. May they all rest in peace..

From Reno, Nevada

Celebrate the life of Nicole with Light, Love and Peace.

My thoughts and prayers are with all the families. All those lost were special gifts to us. This whoe tragedy fills our hearts with sorrow and grief. Life will never be the same.

My thoughts are with the families and students of Virginia Tech, I also agree that enough is enough. The shooter does not need to be glorified and have his statements aired instead if anything has to be aired talk about the victims and their families. So he was bullied and teased in school, so was I, you don't see me out gunning people down and video taping myself.

The brutality and complete abandonment of sanity in this world is horrendous. Innocent loss of life caused by an individual who should have been in counseling and on anti-psychotic medicine. Maybe police will step up to prevent this kind of crime in the future. They say they could not act but who will act when police are complacent or hampered by law? They need to realize that the way to prevent these horrible mass murders is to proactively investigate individuals that are reported to openly show hostility. Virginia gun laws are incredibly negligent and allowed a person with a mental instability to purchase guns. Why do we never learn?

No words can heal the tremendous pain and emptyness that you feel at this time. But the only thought that I want to send is thoughts of happyness and as hard as it is, remember to celebrate your lost one's lives. Only time will heal and I want you all to know that my thoughts and prayers, as well as the rest of the worlds', are with you! GOD BLESS!

My prayers to you and ur family. May God give u strength during ur moment of pain and despair. I cannot imagine what you're going through but know that my heart and everyone else in America grieves with you. God Bless!

As I read about each and every face that is listed, my heart aches for their families and friends. May Gods peace be bestowed on each person that has been affected by this horrible tragedy! My family will keep you all in our prayers!!!

Sending our Love from the Mountains of North Carolina!

My heart and prayers go out to each and every one involved. I pray that we as a people in this great country can find it within our hearts to forgive, not to say that we will ever forget the what happened on Monday. I hope and pray that this will eventually teach us that no matter where you come and no matter what your culture is people are people and should be respected. Let's learn to love one another despite our differences.

There is really little one can say to fathom the events of 04/16/07.

My condolences to the family, friends, students & Virginia Tech University.

May you only remember the good times spent with your loved ones or friends that lost their lives on April 16, 2007.

Peace,

Norman

35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

36As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Amen

I can't imagine the loss of a child at all; much less at Va. Tech with its peaceful, pasotoral setting. As an alumnus of Tech and as father and grandfather, my sincere condolences to the families of the victims of this tragedy. Today everyone is a Hokie and grieves.

We must pledge ourselves to turn this tragedy into positve steps to see that it is far less likely to occur again. That would truly honor those whose lives were so needlessly ended and their families.

May God bless,

Ron Parks, Virgina Tech Class of '68

Don't stand beside my grave and weep.
For I'm not there. I do not sleep.

When you awake from sleep in hush,
and hear the swift, uplifting rush
of quiet birds in circling flight;
Or in the soft starlight of night,

I'll be that gentle breeze that blows,
in moonlit glints of falling snow;
Or sunlight on the ripened grain,
after a gentle autumn rain.

Don't stand beside my grave and weep.
I am not there. I do not sleep.
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I cried for all of them god bless all the family

My family & I are praying for you all. WE LOVE YOU ALL.
May God bring you peace!