Pace on Earth

Sweet Virginia

From everything I've heard about Blacksburg, Virginia it could easily pass for Sackville, Lennoxville, or Fredericton. It's a sleepy university town (as much as that is an oxymoron) that was basically of victim of bad luck. This could have happened pretty much anywhere...It's very sad and that's all I have to say about that. I will let someone else say something though:

I love how the clip ends with the unscripted chant. I showed this clip to my friend Cathy and she told me that it gave her the chills. I did too but for different reasons. Cathy went to school at Virginia Tech and has been in that stadium yelling those words. Everyone she knows down there is safe but shaken. She said they used to go to the Basketball games dressed in ogange and maroon and that this Friday is Hokie Hope day where anyone who wants to show support can wear orange and maroon.

There was one Canadian among the victims; a prof named Jocelyne Couture-Nowak who was from Nova Scotia. It's such a small world.

Pace out.

PS - I guess I should also point out that untold hundreds of civilians died in Irag this week and it's equally sad that those deaths hardly qualify as news these days. Shitty.

posted by Vitamin S @ 11:12 p.m.