Letter: Commemorating the victims, not the murderer
Letter to the Editor
April 27, 2007
The author of the letter "Remembering everyone who died in the VT tragedy" (CT, April 25) is quite naive. As she wrote to the Collegiate Times something like, how can we (the Hokies) claim to be a family and not recognize him as one of OUR dead, the answer is simple my dear, even your own family will turn on you. That is just what he did to us, to you, to me, to this university, to this country and to this world. He turned on us. And he deserves nothing from us. He turned on us. You probably can't imagine how I can say something like that, just as I can't imagine how you can say he deserves to be recognized, regarded, or dare I even say, honored, by any of us that were here that day. Let's just agree to disagree, this battle will rage for years, simply put, he's a murderer and an insult to the tradition and pride of Virginia Tech.
Melissa L. Watson
Chrisitiansburg, Va