[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 5]
[Senate]
[Page 6128]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF VIRGINIA TECH TRAGEDY

  Mr. WARNER. Madam President, 1 year ago today, the horrific shootings 
at Virginia Tech claimed 32 innocent lives.
  In remembrance of the lives of promise that were forever lost that 
shocking day, I would simply like to read each of their names into the 
Congressional Record: Ross A. Alameddine; Christopher James Bishop; 
Brian R. Bluhm; Ryan Christopher Clark; Austin Michelle Cloyd; Jocelyne 
Couture-Nowak; Daniel Alejandro Perez Cueva; Kevin P. Granata; Matthew 
Gregory Gwaltney; Caitlin Millar Hammaren; Jeremy Michael Herbstritt; 
Rachael Elizabeth Hill; Emily Jane Hilscher; Jarrett Lee Lane; Matthew 
Joseph La Porte; Henry J. Lee; Liviu Librescu; G.V. Loganathan; Partahi 
Mamora Halomoan Lumbantoruan; Lauren Ashley McCain; Daniel Patrick 
O'Neil; Juan Ramon Ortiz-Ortiz; Minal Hiralal Panchal; Erin Nicole 
Peterson; Michael Steven Pohle, Jr.; Julia Kathleen Pryde; Mary Karen 
Read; Reema Joseph Samaha; Waleed Mohamed Shaalan; Leslie Geraldine 
Sherman; Maxine Shelly Turner; Nicole Regina White.
  The day after the shooting, I mourned with the campus community at a 
convocation held on the campus of Virginia Tech. While the mourning of 
that tragic day continues for all of us, in the past year the Tech 
family has come together to support each other in a way that all of 
America admires. I know that those who have suffered most in the 
tragedy, and their families, remain in the thoughts and prayers of not 
only all Hokies, but indeed Americans across the country.

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