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April 17, 2007
Bless His Brave Heart
...Screams followed an instant later, and the banging continued. When students realized the sounds were gunshots, Calhoun said, he started flipping over desks to make hiding places. Others dashed to the windows of the second-floor classroom, kicking out the screens and jumping from the ledge of Room 204, he said."I must've been the eighth or ninth person who jumped, and I think I was the last," said Calhoun, of Waynesboro, Va. He landed in a bush and ran.
Calhoun said that the two students behind him were shot, but that he believed they survived. Just before he climbed out the window, Calhoun said, he turned to look at his professor, who had stayed behind, apparently to prevent the gunman from opening the door.
The instructor was killed, Calhoun said.
Sweet Jesus.
Posted by tree hugging sister at April 17, 2007 10:17 AM
Comments
It's just terrible, anyway you look at it.
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at April 17, 2007 11:38 AM
Fox&Friends said that professor was a Holocaust survivor.
Good Lord.
Posted by: Lisa at April 17, 2007 11:39 AM
Yes, he was.
(And Monday was Holocaust Remembrance Day - how sad).
Still: I am humbled by the man's noble (and I think that's the best word for it) act: giving up his life in the hope that some of the students would live. He was a bigger man than most professors in this country put together. (And I am a professor).
They should name a building on campus after Prof. Livrescu.
Posted by: ricki at April 18, 2007 10:18 AM
Librescu.
He at least deserves for me to get his name right.
Posted by: ricki at April 18, 2007 10:20 AM
Hmmm.
Recognition for a truly selfless act?
Amen.
Posted by: memomachine at April 19, 2007 12:28 AM