The Elmwood Volunteers and Staff are extremely saddened by the massacre at Virginia Tech University. We mourn this horrible tragedy that has befallen the students killed and injured, and their families. May they pull together as one and allow the long healing to begin. Our thoughts and prayers are with them...
Quote:
We are sad today, and we will be sad for quite a while. We are not moving on. We are embracing our mourning. We are Virginia Tech ...
-- Nikki Giovanni, University Distinguished Professor, poet, activist
Express your feeling at the April 16th Memorial website established by Virginia Tech by
CLICKING HERE .
This is a list of some of the victims of the massacre...
- Ross Abdallah Alameddine, 20, of Saugus, Mass.
- Christopher James Bishop, 35.
- Ryan Clark, 22, of Martinez, Ga., biology and English major.
- Austin Cloyd, an international studies major from Blacksburg, Va.
- Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, a French instructor.
- Daniel Perez Cueva, 21, killed in his French class.
- Kevin Granata, age unknown, engineering science and mechanics professor.
- Caitlin Hammaren, 19, of Westtown, N.Y., a sophomore majoring in international studies and French.
- Jeremy Herbstritt, 27, of Bellefonte, Pa.
- Rachael Hill, 18, of Glen Allen, Va.
- Emily Jane Hilscher, a 19-year-old freshman from Woodville.
- Jarrett L. Lane, 22-years-old.
- Matthew J. La Porte, 20, a freshman from Dumont, N.J.
- Liviu Librescu, 76, engineering science and mathematics lecturer, according to Puri.
- G.V. Loganathan, 51, civil and environmental engineering professor.
- Partahi Lumbantoruan, 34, of Indonesia, civil engineering doctoral student.
- Lauren McCain, 20, of Hampton, Va., international studies major.
- Daniel O'Neil, 22, of Rhode Island.
- Juan Ramon Ortiz, a 26-year-old graduate student in engineering from Bayamon, Puerto Rico.
- Mary Karen Read, 19, of Annandale, Va.
- Reema J. Samaha, 18, a freshman from Centreville, Va.
In order to focus more on the operations and preservation of the cemetery, the Cemetery Staff has announced that the Elmwood Cemetery 5K Graveyard Run and Community Walk will not be held in 2007.
I took this, along with a lot of other photos out at Elmwood just last week. There were clouds in the sky...so the sun was not quite right. But I was struck by how beautiful and stark this gravemarker looked with the bare tree limbs behind it. 
