I WILL REMEMBER

“We will continue to invent the future through our blood and tears and through all our sadness … We are the Hokies … ”

– Nikki Giovanni, University Distinguished Professor, poet, activist



As tomorrow looms ahead of me I am once again reminded of the horrific tragedy at Virginia Tech last year. We still ache, we still bleed for those we lost. We are still shaken to the core of our soul that such senseless destruction of innocent lives could even occur.

Tomorrow I will wear my colors and support my school. I will go about my daily life just as all of us will. But as I do so I will be there in spirit with my fallen Virginia Tech brothers and sisters. And I will be there in spirit with all of us left behind. Like them I will be angry, I will be sad, I will rage against the tragedy and I will wish I could soothe the deep angry wound that my alma mater still carries.

But most of all, for the sake of 32 ...

I WILL REMEMBER.