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From: "Eric Peterson" <>
Subject: Re: [SUVCW] Flag Half staff for the VT shootings
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 18:07:31 -0400
References: <20070421193038.WSGE11114.ibm61aec.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net>


That's not what I'm talking about. They would have been honored by the
college.

I'm going to terminate this discussion becasue you and I do not agree on
this and never will.

Eric
----- Original Message -----
From: <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 3:30 PM
Subject: Re: [SUVCW] Flag Half staff for the VT shootings


> VT stands for Virginia Tech. Why in the world would you choose to try to
> pick that nit?
>
> Those kids had accomplished a great deal worth honoring. For one thing,
> all of them were attending college, preparing to become tomorrow's
> leaders. They didn't have to be there in class that day. They could have
> been home playing video games. They could have screwed around in high
> school and never gotten admitted into Virginia Tech in the first place.
>
> Virginia Tech is a highly regarded university, not just anyone can get in.
> I'm sure all those kids were very intelligent, hard workers. If they
> weren't they wouldn't have been there. How about we honor these students
> for the excellent example they were to the rest of us? How about we morne
> the loss of so much potential for mankind?
>
>>
>> From: "Eric Peterson" <>
>> Date: 2007/04/21 Sat AM 11:03:39 EST
>> To: <>
>> Subject: Re: [SUVCW] Flag Half staff for the VT shootings
>>
>> We are not honoring victims according to the President. We are mourning
>> our
>> nation's loss. What I object to is the media saying we are "honoring" the
>> victims. That connotes that they did something worthy of honor or of
>> being
>> saluted. Mourning victims is an entirely different thing. The President
>> has
>> called for us to officially grieve, so my flag is at half staff. Let's
>> remember that words mean things and "honor" means something far different
>> than "mourn" or "grieve".
>>
>> Just to pick a nit, the subject line sould read "VA shootings"
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 8:55 PM
>> Subject: Re: [SUVCW] Flag Half staff for the VT shootings
>>
>>
>> > Every one of those "vicitms" was robbed of their potential to lead
>> > productive
>> > lives and possibly go on to do noble deeds and commit courageous acts
>> > themselves. We fly the flag at half staff by order of the commander in
>> > chief of our
>> > great nation. We honor the victims because we have values that are not
>> > yet
>> > lost, thank God.
>> >
>> >
>> >
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