We Will Prevail
There were 33 students and faculty members missing from Virginia Tech's
game Saturday when they played Florida State. In a perfect world, they
could have been there, should have been there. Instead, they all now lie
in distant graves, but their senseless deaths continue to weigh heavily
on the Virginia Tech family.
Before home games, many fans make the trek to the "April 16th Memorial"
in front of Burress Hall. The simple monument contains a semicircle of
32 gray Hokie stones, one for each of the victims killed in the tragic
on-campus massacre earlier this year. The upper level holds a plaque
with the refrain from the poem that professor Nikki Giovanni read at
that first convocation after the shootings. "We will prevail," it reads.
"We are Virginia Tech."
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