"My father blocked the doorway with his body and asked the students to flee...students started opening windows and jumping out."- Joe Librescu, son of Virginia Tech's Professor Liviu Librescu
We too have lock-down procedures here at school in the event of an intruder. At the beginning of each year, we all discuss the course of action that we would take in attempting to diffuse a tragedy from unfolding before us...but honestly, I can't fathom having to live through such an ordeal. Nobody expects it to ever actually happen in "our school." I would imagine that the entire academic community at Virginia Tech felt the same way.
Is it me or does it always seem like each time a senseless incident like this takes place, God gives us someone to show the world that Yes, mankind is inherently good and even willing to lay down his/her own life in an effort to save others...evidenced by Liviu Librescu's heroic actions.
The Associated Press reported that Librescu saved the lives of several students by using his body to barricade a classroom door before he was gunned down in Monday's massacre. As a child, he was interned at a labor camp in Transnistria and then deported along with his family and thousands of other Jewish people to a ghetto in the Romanian city of Focsani. Between 280,000-380,000 were killed by Romania's Nazi-allied regime during the war, yet Librescu survived.
...Survived until the age of 76 only to serve as a human shield for college students who were fleeing for their lives from a demented gunman. What a remarkable, courageous man. May God bless him.
We too have lock-down procedures here at school in the event of an intruder. At the beginning of each year, we all discuss the course of action that we would take in attempting to diffuse a tragedy from unfolding before us...but honestly, I can't fathom having to live through such an ordeal. Nobody expects it to ever actually happen in "our school." I would imagine that the entire academic community at Virginia Tech felt the same way.
Is it me or does it always seem like each time a senseless incident like this takes place, God gives us someone to show the world that Yes, mankind is inherently good and even willing to lay down his/her own life in an effort to save others...evidenced by Liviu Librescu's heroic actions.
The Associated Press reported that Librescu saved the lives of several students by using his body to barricade a classroom door before he was gunned down in Monday's massacre. As a child, he was interned at a labor camp in Transnistria and then deported along with his family and thousands of other Jewish people to a ghetto in the Romanian city of Focsani. Between 280,000-380,000 were killed by Romania's Nazi-allied regime during the war, yet Librescu survived.
...Survived until the age of 76 only to serve as a human shield for college students who were fleeing for their lives from a demented gunman. What a remarkable, courageous man. May God bless him.
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