Under Cloudy Skies

As strong breezes and drizzle moved into Blacksburg on Tuesday morning, eight days after the shootings, Virginia Tech students and faculty members began relocating some of the memorial tributes that had sprung up on the campus's Drillfield.

At the arc of stones where people had left notes and personal items for each of the 32 victims, and for the gunman, students and staff members carefully filed the notes, stuffed animals, and banners into white cardboard boxes. They left the melted

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