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Article: 'Lie-in' remembers Virginia Tech massacre
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- New Haven Register
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- April 17, 2008
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By Amanda Howe Special to the Register
WEST HAVEN -- University of New Haven students dressed in black
and wore maroon and orange ribbons around their necks Wednesday
during a lie-in to remember the victims of the Virginia Tech
massacre on the first anniversary of the killings, and to protest
gun laws.
A similar event was held in Blacksburg, Va., and on campuses
nationwide, as students and others paid tribute to the 32 victims of
the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. On the campus of
Virginia Tech, the accomplishments of the 32 were read amid tears,
and bells tolled for each of the victims.
"The world was cheated -- cheated out of the accomplishments that
were sure to come from ...
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