How do you cope with the knowledge that someone laid down their life so you could live? It happens all the time in war, but this wasn’t war, it was a classroom.
Professor Liviu Librescu laid down his life for his students on Monday. He barricaded the door with his body so that his students could get out the window and live. He knew evil. He had already seen it when the Nazis put his family in an internment camp and then deported them to a Romanian ghetto during World War II.
All I can think is that he must have recognized evil on Monday and knew what he had to do. May God bless and keep him, as well as his family, in His loving embrace.
I am still shaking my head… Mr. Liviu Librescu is a hero in every sense of the word. My heart is sad.
Hi Sarah, my heart is sad as well. There is a shop owner on Etsy who is an engineering student at VT and though they are coping, they are still in shock.
From one rose to another — I, too, am baffled and sad. And proud to share a profession with Mr Liviu Librescu who shows what teachers and heros are made of. You are right. There is no way for rational people to understand the thoughts and actions of irrational people.
Anna, respect and honor Mr. Librescue — but I’ve been weeping for the young gunman’s parents from S.Korea! Can you imagine what they had to sacrifice to send their son to college … and how he’s repaid them?
Hi Budgie, I’m certain his parents are completely numb. How could you not feel that you should have known that your child was so over the edge?
Amazing,
Thank you Anna. Didn’t know this.
Incredible.
Stew
It was amazing. Thanks for coming by Stew-be-do.
Thank you for coming by, Joan and for being a teacher!
You’re “Daddy’s Roses” and mine is for my mom.
Perhaps he was living the motto, “Never again!”
God bless him and his loved ones.
I hadn’t thought of that, benning. As I said previously, he knew evil when he saw/heard it and protected those around him probably due to his experiences.
I wish we had more like him
He was truly a selfless person and there are too few of them around these days, Mindy.