2008 Woodie Awards
Students need to remember
Jesica Jacobs
Issue date: 4/20/07 Section: Forum
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In the aftermath of the Virginia Tech tragedy, it is important for Southwest Baptist students to have a time of reflection.
It is hard to take an event that happened half a country away and set it aside, to give it honor and acknowledgement. Yes, it was shocking, terrible and devastating, but do we really grasp what happened?
I want you to think hard and long about it. A university campus has 33 less people today than it had last week. Thirty-three families lost a son, daughter, sister, brother, mother, father, wife or husband.
Can you honestly imagine that? In most cases on our campus, that's every single person gone out of a single classroom, including the professor.
April 16 was truly the worst day of hundreds of people's lives.
Envision how that would affect our campus. Practically an entire hall of a dorm, the faculty in several departments or the staff of an entire building would be gone.
It is so important for us to be remembering and praying for the families of those lost right now and do so for quite some time. Their pain is long from over.
It is also so important for us to love and respect one another, because you never know when you aren't going to get another chance. It would be a terrible to leave this world holding a grudge or having someone hold one against you.
As the group Nada Surf sings, "Always love, hate will get you every time. Always love, even when you want to fight." These words ring so true with me. There is nothingmore important to remember right now.
So just remember to pray. The students of Virginia Tech desperately want and need it.
It is hard to take an event that happened half a country away and set it aside, to give it honor and acknowledgement. Yes, it was shocking, terrible and devastating, but do we really grasp what happened?
I want you to think hard and long about it. A university campus has 33 less people today than it had last week. Thirty-three families lost a son, daughter, sister, brother, mother, father, wife or husband.
Can you honestly imagine that? In most cases on our campus, that's every single person gone out of a single classroom, including the professor.
April 16 was truly the worst day of hundreds of people's lives.
Envision how that would affect our campus. Practically an entire hall of a dorm, the faculty in several departments or the staff of an entire building would be gone.
It is so important for us to be remembering and praying for the families of those lost right now and do so for quite some time. Their pain is long from over.
It is also so important for us to love and respect one another, because you never know when you aren't going to get another chance. It would be a terrible to leave this world holding a grudge or having someone hold one against you.
As the group Nada Surf sings, "Always love, hate will get you every time. Always love, even when you want to fight." These words ring so true with me. There is nothingmore important to remember right now.
So just remember to pray. The students of Virginia Tech desperately want and need it.
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