Unsettling return to Virginia Tech
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Blacksburg, Va.
Students returning to the Virginia Tech campus this week held a memorial to the 27 students and five faculty members murdered on campus last spring—and then were rocked by another tragedy. A carbon monoxide leak at an off-campus apartment sickened 23 students, two critically. “Enough is enough,” said Police Capt. Bruce Bradbery. More than 10,000 people attended the unveiling of the memorial—32 300-pound stones engraved with the names of the students and faculty that seething loner Seung-Hui Cho shot and killed in a coldblooded massacre, before turning his gun on himself. “I still think about it every day,” said sophomore Mike Giancola of the shootings, “but I’m ready to get my life going.”
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