{"id":554,"date":"2008-04-16T11:53:35","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T11:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2008\/04\/a-reminder.html"},"modified":"2008-04-16T11:53:35","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T11:53:35","slug":"a-reminder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/04\/a-reminder.html","title":{"rendered":"A reminder"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a lot going on. The Pope. Politics.
\nI don’t want to forget, though, that a year ago today – right now – we were all watching in horror as unbelievable news starting coming out of Blacksburg, Virginia. <\/a>And at the end of the day, 32 students and faculty were dead, along with one murderer who, inexplicably, gave himself over to whatever demons haunted him, took their lives in his hands…and then took their lives.
\nPray for the dead, for their families and friends, and for all victims of such crimes. Pray for those tempted by darkness, as well.
\n(And not to put a boring personal spin on everything, new readers might not know that my second oldest son, a VT grad, \u00a0at the time worked at the Burger King which is in the VT student center, and was in the building, which is very close to Norris Hall, when the shootings began. Naturally, the whole experience had a profound impact on him, as it did on the whole VT community.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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