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Prior days' news: By date | Search This week's print issue Back issues: By date | Search April 24, 2007Memorial Tributes to Virginia Tech's Dead Are Tended, Moved, and ArchivedBlacksburg, Va. — As strong breezes and drizzle moved into Blacksburg this morning, Virginia Tech students and faculty members began relocating some of the memorial tributes that have sprung up across the campus’s Drillfield. At the arc of stones where people have left notes and personal items for each of the 32 victims of last week’s shooting, and for the gunman, students and staff members carefully filed the notes, stuffed animals, and banners into white cardboard boxes. They left the melted candles and piles of flowers, many of which had dried and faded over the past several days. The other items were moved to the campus library. In the center of the Drillfield, two members of Hokies United, a student-led volunteer group, carried white wooden boards on which people had scrawled memories, condolences, poems, and prayers under the four rows of maroon-and-white tents, where other such message boards have been located. They carefully repositioned the boards so all of them would fit under the crowded tents. A popular maroon-and-orange “VT” sign that hundreds of people had inscribed was moved from a spot on the edge of the Drillfield into the War Memorial Chapel. A cardboard sign roped to a tree where the sign had been read: “Sorry, but due to heavy wind, the VT sign was taken down and has been placed inside the chapel.” Underneath the tree, rows of candles still burned. Their glass containers have blackened with use, and thick layers of red, white, pink, and light-blue wax have built up on the grass. Virginia Tech officials said on Monday that they were still deciding what to do with the memorials over the long term, but that the markers would remain at least through graduation. —Sara Hebel Posted on Tuesday April 24, 2007 | Permalink |
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