It's been three years since 32 students were gunned down on the campus.
By Gil Kaufman
Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images
Students on the campus of Virginia Tech University are pausing Friday (April 16) to remember the lives of 32 students who were killed on the school's campus three years ago in the worst mass school shooting in U.S. history.
They will gather Friday evening to light candles and place them next to the 32 limestone blocks commemorating the victims of the massacre in a ceremony that has taken place every year since a troubled lone gunman, student Cho Seung-Hui, killed 32 students and faculty and then himself on April 16, 2007.
According to the Washington Post, this year's ceremony has taken on added significance, because of the upcoming graduation of a number of students on the Blacksburg, Virginia, campus who were freshmen at the time of the incident, an increasingly shrinking group that has taken to calling itself the "4/16 generation.
By Gil Kaufman
Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images
Students on the campus of Virginia Tech University are pausing Friday (April 16) to remember the lives of 32 students who were killed on the school's campus three years ago in the worst mass school shooting in U.S. history.
They will gather Friday evening to light candles and place them next to the 32 limestone blocks commemorating the victims of the massacre in a ceremony that has taken place every year since a troubled lone gunman, student Cho Seung-Hui, killed 32 students and faculty and then himself on April 16, 2007.
According to the Washington Post, this year's ceremony has taken on added significance, because of the upcoming graduation of a number of students on the Blacksburg, Virginia, campus who were freshmen at the time of the incident, an increasingly shrinking group that has taken to calling itself the "4/16 generation.
- 4/16/2010
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