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Remembering Virginia Tech… One Year Later
Posted On:Apr 16, 2008
Today’s Morning Edition Blog is dedicated to the memory of the people killed one year ago today at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.
We welcome your memories and tributes, and we’ll post as many of them as possible.
One year ago today, I was at my desk in the News Channel 11 newsroom watching the news wires, What started as a report of a campus shooting quickly turned into ceaseless news coverage of a massacre just a few hours to our north.
I remember watching on-line coverage from WSLS-TV, our sister station in Roanoke. A reporter broke the news that the death toll was over 20, noticeably stunning the news anchors who were hearing the information at the same time as the rest of us. They had no way of knowing the news was only going to get worse.
My colleagues Josh Green, Nate Morabito, Ted Overbay, and Jonathan Webb spent days in Blacksburg providing coverage for WJHL. They’re back in Blacksburg today. You’ll see their live coverage through the afternoon and the evening.
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Posted by ( Laptoper ) on April 26, 2008 at 1:18 am
One year is too much for Virginia.