I watched The History Channel tonight, which was my reward for laboring over a clean bathroom. My interest was peaked when I found that the channel could step in just ten days after such a tragedy and bring to light a very informative and unbiased analysis of what occurred in Blackburg on Monday, April 16, 2007.

Tonight I learned much more of the killer and the students who are left to make sense out of such a devastating event on Virginia Tech’s campus. I believe history to be rewarding because it’s not to be dissected for its politics, but rather for its facts. And that’s what The History Channel gave me tonight: facts. A breath of fresh air – they didn’t try to make sense out of all of it – but only the situation at hand.

To credit Jon Shirley, we should know that everyone in America feels something for that campus right now, whether they know it or not. We can busy our lives and desensitize ourselves, reading their story as any other headline, but when we slow down to think things through we begin to feel for those involved. Just because we are busy doesn’t mean we shouldn’t slow down to grieve for the loss of 31 lives, praying for those in Blacksburg to be renewed with God’s hope.

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