I think the one thing that people fail to realize is that this affects many more lives than just the 33 dead. Family, friends, classmates.
And like my co-worker who I just spoke to. She just returned from VT campus. Her son lives in the dorm where the first shootings took place.
Her daughter called early yesterday morning and told her mother not to freak out if she heard the news about a shooting in the dorm where Ken lives. She said he is okay but the dorm is in "lock down". She told her mother she would talk to her latet.
She went to class like most of the student population did. Her class was in a building across from where the main massacre took place. They heard pop, pop, pop, had no idea what was going on, looked out and saw people jumping out of windows. The pop, pop, pop sound continued. I think it takes awhile for the brain to comprehend what the eyes are seeing.
This was one of the classes where the professor told his students to jump. He tried to hold the door shut. He was shot and killed. So were the last two students who tried to get out of the windows, but not in time.
Their mother came here to talk, to be consoled I presume. She wasn't scheduled to work so I guess that is why she was here just chit-chatting. Perhaps she needed to be around friends and co-workers before she went home. She had an exhausting day, spent time with her kids, and got to see Pres. Bush.
If you're going to complain a few people are taking advantage of a NEWS STORY to make MONEY, at least put it in context to what professional, longstanding news corporations do EVERYDAY of the year.
That is their job. To report the news.
How this compares to the three trials or cases mentioned is not even in the same league.
Regging names to capitalize on events like this is not our job. It is our choice. But it certainly does not add credibility or validate our decision making. If someone wants to set up a memorial, site then so be it. But when the offer is to either set up a memorial site or sell it, that dulls the senses to the core.
I'll ask Carol if she and her children would like to buy this name so they can never put this ordeal behind them.
