19th Apr 2007
tearing up
I’ve been watching a lot of the online videos about Virginia Tech — from students, tributes made by others, and coverage of the memorial service. I just watched Nikki Giovanni’s speech and the funny thing is that it wasn’t until she led the cry of “Let’s Go Hokies” that I teared up. To take something usually associated with the rhythm and tension of a game and infuse it with the spirit of surviving — it hit me, hard, how this college community has begun to embrace who it is and who it will become. A silly cheer, in some ways, but one that means the world to the chanters and now signifies much more to those of us in the larger community too.
See it at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=snuc1hDDSiI
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