Prof. Librescu was teaching in room 204 on the second floor of Norris Hall, Virginia Tech, when he heard the sound of gunshots erupting from the German class next door. Before the students in his class could even gather what was happening, he had shut the wooden doors of the classroom. When the screams started, the students began jumping off the window with the professor holding the door fast against the gunman, trying to save the students he loved more than his own life.
He had survived the Nazi Holocaust, he had survived the Soviet labor camps, he had escaped Nicolae Ceaucescu's fascist regime, only to go down with his body buckling under the bullets of a crazy gunman in Virginia. The Nazis had their own demented reasons for persecution, the Soviets had their own defective logic for oppression, but that gunman at Virginia shot without reason against a closed door. He shot just to snuff out any life those bullets met, just to kill, just from hate. And Librescu, laid down his life to save his students from that murderous hate in an act of heroism that surpassed his achievements as a scholar.
There are some times when one can’t remain blind to the world and say well, I’m here only to write on law firms, and this is one of those times. To turn a blind eye to the happenings at Virginia Tech would be to ignore everything that our laws and constitution stand for. And today here at Judged blog, we honor the passing of Liviu Librescu, scholar extraordinary, teacher extraordinary, and a hero to the last act of his life, a holocaust survivor who died on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Judged sends its condolences to all of the victims, families, friends, and students of Virginia Tech.
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