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Monday, August 20, 2007

Video: Dedication of Virginia Tech memorial

Video by Evelio Contreras

Thousands of people, many wearing maroon Hokies United T-shirts, stood in the midday sun Sunday to be part of the dedication of a memorial to the victims of Tech student Seung-Hui Cho.

The memorial is an enhanced replica of one that grew in front of Burruss Hall in the hours after the April 16 shootings. Hokies United placed one stone for each person killed that day. That simple memorial became a center of mourning and remembrance. When the university set up a committee to determine the form a memorial to the victims should take, the committee decided it could do no better than to emulate that spontaneous memorial. The stones from that original memorial were given to the families of the victims at the conclusion of the dedication ceremony.

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