I have been following the recently university shooting at Virginia Tech with very keen interest. My TV has been switched on for the past 24 hours, ever since I turned on the evening news yesterday to find this tragedy happening.. (the last time this happened was about 2 years ago when I was following the last days of the life of Pope John Paul II).
As I enter this blog, the memorial service goes on in Blacksburgh with President George Bush in attendance. More than 30 lives were lost yesterday, and that's a lot of innocent lives... It could have been any student on that campus which was shot, and it could have happened at any university campus in any country... the question that runs through my head is...
What if I woke up tomorrow morning, and this tragedy had happened in my college? What if (touchwood) my friends were those involved? How would I react?
As I sat to watch the students of Virginia Tech observe a moment of silence, my thoughts ran back to the memorial service we had recently for the various people who generously donated their body to medical sciences... The same question came back to me... How many people really care whether I live or die?
Indeed, how may people really care whether YOU live or die?
p.s. with reference to the header of my blog... what have you planned after the dash???
Tuesday, April 17
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Look on the bright side. If your campus gets shot up, there'll be medics all around. No better place to get injured than in a hospital or medial school if you ask me.
If I die, my dog would care, and so would the hundred plus daily readers of my blog. But I won't co I'll be in Heaven whispering in the Lord's ear to smite down so-and-so and....well basically smite down people.
All I can say is that when I finally return to the Father's house, you'd all better be bawling your eyes out and throwing yourselves at my coffin and into my open grave.
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