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Those Bleeding Scars

The young lives he violently took and the blood he spilled on his quick and armed hands... are those permanent scars for all who lost friends or relatives in Norris and Johnston Hall on the campus grounds in Blackburg,VA ; this is the deadiliest massacre, after Columbine,in the U.S.A; but what motivated Cho to buy guns? The fellow student fired more than one hundred seventy rounds, and gunned down his own; without pity or remorse, he continued his unjustified rampage: reveling in the premeditated carnage; then he shot himself... as police searched the floors! What did he accomplish, and what kind of anguish he inflicted on his parents and others who unconsolingly grieve? Did he do all that for a moment's glory, or because was wicked and full of fury? We may never know an answer...that he has taken to his grave! Those bleeding scars can be healed, if some kind of forgiveness is given; how can I say to them," Forgive him! "... when he killed the essence of their dream?

Copyright © | Year Posted 2007




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