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To: LindyBill who wrote (202949)	4/17/2007 3:24:39 PM
From: MJ	Respond to of 793879

This tragedy affects the immediate families of those who died. They will follow their family and religious traditions-----how they handle this will be their choosing. Life is not going back to normal. Virginia Tech classes are cancelled for the week allowing for the initial stages of dealing with the tragedy. In Virginia, the traditional healing process can and does often include grievers coming together----no one in Virginia is saying that life goes back to normal or that there will be closure immediately or ever. We cannot and should not ask that our young college students and families handle this burden of making sense of the tragedy and grieving alone. On the following I disagree with Dennis Pager "It is foolish because one does not speak about healing the same day (or week or perhaps even month) that one is traumatized -- especially by evil. One must be allowed time for anger and grief. To speak of healing and "closure" before one goes through those other emotions is to speak not of healing but of suppression" On this I agree with Dennis Pager "It should read "31 murdered." I do not know when exactly this notion of counting murderers along with their victims began, but it is a moral travesty." One of my regrets in this is that the murderer, young student did not live for us to understand why he did what he did. What his story was that led him to being a murderer------one article mentions anti-depressants, were these a factor? mj