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Monday, April 23, 2007

A tribute to Cho Seung Hui

Its unfortunate that over time you felt the need to finally carry out your pain on so many people, that had no idea why you did what you did.

Did they know that for years you had been made fun of, mocked, slapped, laughed at, poked at, spit on, yelled at, beat up, snickered at, called racial slurs, had pranks played on you, things stolen, given pharmaceutical drugs to cover up your pain, told what to do, never listened to, made fun of speech, and looks, shunned by women, talked about behind your back, and so many cruel and inhumane treatments reserved only for those that do these things to others, that are ignorant of their ignorance.

There is no real understandable excuse for murder, as their is no real understandable excuse for the taunting and ridicule you received for so many years. You only did what you felt would cease the torment. Who do we directly blame? Not you, Cho Seung-Hui for you vented the only way you knew how considering the circumstances. You cannot blame your parents or relatives for your decisions, but only those that tormented you, and made fun of you without regard to your feelings as a human. You found it in your heart to take back the lives of 30 plus people and change the destinies of many more. You have finally gotten the attention of the President of the USA, and many other celebrities. You will be remembered in history as a madman that murdered so many people at Virginia Tech University and by others, that a human being died that day.

Cho Seung-Hui, you will be remembered as a human being who cried out for help, and nobody cared to listen until now. Your death will no doubt change many laws and procedures in mental health, as well as the educational system.

You did not die in vain Cho Seung-Hui.

Some will honor your death with humble forgiveness.

Cho Seung-Hui, this short letter is a Memorial of your death, because despite your faults and reasons, you too were a human being created by God.

Cho Seung-Hui , you succeeded to almost finish your 4 year degree at a very prestigious university almost undetected. That deserves recognition as does all of your other unknown accomplishments that only you, your family and a few others are aware of. You were a proud Korean and an American Citizen by rights also deserves recognition.

You used parts of the American system to gain your revenge, as do others that wish to carry out acts of violence.

Cho Seung-Hui, the tribute, is for you being a good son to your parents and siblings , again despite your faults, as we all have. You will be missed by many people and hated and despised by a nation of lost sheep, who cast stones at glass houses.

Cho Seung-Hui, you have been forgiven for what you did.


While people of America are shocked, families of the dead at Virginia Tech are mourning, lawyers shaping their pencils, news media enjoying ratings, political capital being gained, movie deals and books in the wings, the world still moves forward.

God will have mercy on your soul, Cho Seung-Hui because God knows how to forgive and forget.

Thru all of this madness, Cho Seung-Hui, I wanted you to know that you too died of the 32/33, and were a student at Virginia Tech, a Korean/American who had feelings, as do we all and that you to, are Memorialized with reverence.


In trying times like these, when terrible crimes against humanity have been committed, like the recent murders of Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old South Korean man of Virginian Tech University in Blacksburg, Virginia, we must be extra careful not to rush to judgment or let anger get the best of us! The world watched in horror on April 16, 2007, as Cho Seung-Hui made history by unleashing the worst school shooting rampage in U.S. history.

Cho Seung-Hui was described as a deeply troubled man, one who never smiled or greeted strangers, and always expressed deep-seated hatred of “rich kids,” and people who led lives of “debauchery.” He took antidepressants, and it is believed once set fire to a dormitory, stalked women, and wrote very disturbing pieces of literature. He was what many would call “a bad guy.”

Where is God when terrible things like this happen? What we must
remember is, God is there, even though it seems at times as though he isn’t. God loves us all, including those of us who have chosen the wrong path. God loves Cho Seung-Hui very much and looks down from heaven with compassion, despite his wreaking sheer havoc on an unsuspecting college campus, taking many innocent lives in the process.

Jesus was right there all the time, looking down with love as this
angry man premeditatedly sawed the serial numbers off the guns he used to blast screaming college kids into tomorrow. Jesus was watching as young people, with their lives still ahead of them, stood petrified with fear in those brief moments before their demise. Jesus was there, waiting in the wings to comfort those mourning families who lost their loved ones at the whim of a tarnished soul. Jesus was there, my friend, Jesus hasn’t forgotten! As the song goes, Jesus knows, Jesus cares!

There’s a lot of anger in the air because of this tragedy. The world is wishing this guy straight to Hell, thinking of how much people like Cho Seung-Hui deserve to suffer, but its times like these when we must try especially hard to think like Jesus. Its times like these when the grace of Jesus Christ our Lord shines out brighter than the sun. The Lord is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance! We should not wish evil on this disturbed and erring child of God, no matter how horrible and unsettling his deeds.

We should all aim never to be judgmental or hateful, and we must be careful where we place blame. People are quick to judge Cho Seung-Hui, but before they do, they should consider judging the people he executed first. They were college kids, most of them, and like the majority of young men and women today, probably experimented with premarital sex, smoked pot, and drank alcohol—not exactly followers of Christ! So we shouldn’t judge him too harshly.

Maybe, after this heartless berserker’s rage, when the traumatized halls of Virginia Tech were finally calmed, and 33 people (including the gunman himself) were dead, and 21 more seriously injured, just before Mr. Seung-Hui took a bullet from his own gun to the head, he repented. Yes, maybe, just before the blood-caked carpets of Virginia Tech were combed over by police, when only faint pleas for help could be heard from terrorized victims, curled up and quivering in the fetal position in the corners of classrooms and under desks, this furious killer genuinely repented. Perhaps just before that last bullet ravaged his brain, doing away with his thought processes, he muddled a prayer to God, asking for forgiveness of his sins and relief from the pain of life under which he snapped.

For God so loved the world that he sent his only begotten son that
whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life! God loves Cho Seung-Hui, just like he loves you and me. He wants us to spend eternity in heaven together.

Maybe, even as I write this article, those slain men and women that
meet God at the pearly gates are in for a surprise! Singing hymns,
encircling the throne of God, listening to the lovely melody of harps, those murdered children of the almighty will be met by the very man who sent them there, and with forgiveness and beaming smiles of compassion and unfathomable joy, they will make that circle one soul larger! Cho Seung-Hui may not have been smiling much on earth, but he certainly will be in heaven as he, and all the redeemed, clasp hands and dance before the Lord on the streets of gold in that city foursquare!



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