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Virginia Tech massacre
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Aerial photo showing location of Norris and West Ambler Johnston Halls
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Elementary French class students take cover in Holden Hall room 212.
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One of the photographs of Seung-Hui Cho that he sent to NBC News on the day of the massacre
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Before their 2007 football opener, the Hokies release 32 balloons as a part of a ceremony commemorating the victims.
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Virginia Tech students mourn the victims at a candlelight vigil.
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Permanent memorial on Virginia Tech's drillfield
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President George W. Bush with Virginia Tech Student Government Association President James Tyger after Bush's speech at the school's convocation
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Bench in honor of the survivors of the massacre. It is slightly south of the main memorial.
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Walther P22, one of the two semi-automatic weapons Cho used in the massacre
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