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Va. Tech Classes Resume With Talks, Hugs

Monday, April 23, 2007 9:40:44 PM
By VICKI SMITH

Balloons are released from the Drillfield in front of Burruss Hall on the campus of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., Monday, April 23, 2007 during ceremonies to honor those slain by a gunman last week. Thousands of Virginia Tech students and faculty filled the center of campus Monday to pay solemn tribute to the victims of last week's massacre _ listening quietly as a bell tolled for the dead on the day classes resumed at the grief-stricken school.  (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - Chemistry professor Joe Merola tried to give a lecture Monday, but looking out at 100 Virginia Tech students' faces — and the sweat shirt he'd placed on the seat of a wounded student — he couldn't do it.

"I lost it halfway through class," he said. "I burst into tears and had to turn it over to the counselors."

Students and staff paused twice Monday, at the moments when a week earlier gunman Seung-Hui Cho opened fire in two campus buildings, killing 32 people and himself.


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