Mennonite Church Peace Resources for Youth

I'm sure all of you were horrified by the shooting that occurred during this week at Virginia Tech. The largest school shooting in America's history. All those people who were shot down like deer. These people were innocent,uninvolved parties who were merely attending their classes when a person with one of the simplest weapons today, the gun, barged in and killed them in cold blood. 32 PEOPLE. 2 were killed in the morning and 30 in the afternoon. People were probably already shaken up by the morning shootings. But they went to class,probably telling themselves that it would never happen to them. BUT THEY WERE WRONG. The families and friends of these people will never be the same. What do you do in a situation like this? What can you do to relieve the hurt? Not much. The pain will always be there. But with God and counseling,they may be able to resume some semblance of normal life. 32 PEOPLE. If you refer to my last blog you will realize that 49 people were unaccounted for in the last Gulf War. 49 families not sure whether to hope or grieve. This may be even worse. The families of the 32 people killed at Virginia Tech know where to go to be close to the bodies of their loved ones. Admittedly,48 people were eventually accounted for. But look at the numbers for the other wars. All those people gone. Unaccounted for has such a clean, sterile disassociated sound. But it is not clean, it means anguish and death. Being blown to pieces. War does that. I heard a quote on Star Trek that goes something like this, "Humans are such a strange race, they are more affected by the death of one person than the deaths of thousands."