Posted on 04/20/2007 11:58:21 PM PDT by the scotsman
A survivor of the Virginia Tech massacre has been describing how a colleague died to protect others. Although badly injured, graduate student Waleed Shalaan distracted gunman Cho Seung-Hui to save another person from his bullets.
Waleed saved another student's life.The surviving student, who wishes to remain anonymous, told of Waleed's heroics through an email to his supervisor.
He describes how he was left uninjured after Cho's initial round of shots.
Meanwhile, Waleed had been wounded but was still alive.
However, when Cho later returned to the classroom to inspect for signs of life among his victims, the surviving student struggled to remain calm.
He believes he would have been shot dead were it not for Waleed's "protective movement" that distracted the gunman.
Cho turned and shot Waleed for a second time, killing him, before leaving the classroom.
Randy Dymond, a civil engineering professor, has said the student asked to him to tell the tale "so that the family of Waleed understands the sacrifice."
Shaalan's mother broke down when she heard Mr Dymond's account.
"He was trying to save someone else," she said repeatedly.
Dymond said Shaalan's body was taken to a Blacksburg mosque so classmates, teachers and friends could say goodbye before he was sent to Egypt for burial.'
LOL, you can find my posts when I can’t ... :-)
If the professor is the cause of this hoax, then these are the types of things that would figure into it.
In the meantime, I haven’t even seen that the “anonymous student” is even real. In *all* the various news accounts, I have yet to find one single piece of confirming evidence that the “anonymous student” is even real. I can’t find (out of perhaps 10 stories) a single shred of evidence showing that the student exists. Not a single little bitty shred. Not one.
For all I know, the professor made it up. The other thing that can happen is that someone can pull a hoax on him. Can’t tell who has hoaxed whom.
But, one thing is clear, the main premise of the story is a hoax from the beginning. It doesn’t hold together within its own facts.
Regards,
Star Traveler
You said — “Not by the fleeting last seconds at death do we honor a person — but by the good, the joy and the light a person activates or helps activate during a lifetime in the world.”
You know, that’s great for a secular world, because that’s all they’ve got to hold onto. But, if he was a Muslim, what good is it to consider the “joy and the light a person activates or helps activate” — when he’s going to be in hell and damned for eternity.
It’s more of a tremendously sad occasion than a joyous one. I wouldn’t want to celebrate a person’s entry into hell as a joyous event...
Regards,
Star Traveler
This may be a picture of Nathaniel Krause, first row, second from left.
http://www.cee.cemr.wvu.edu/students/organizations-details.php?id=14&name=Chi+Epsilon
He looks a bit frail and wimpy... :-)
If it’s Krause ... yes, he looks like a teenager, maybe 13 or 14. Makes you wonder.
yep... well, I’m outta here for a while. Gotta get some supplies and then, probably something like sleep ... LOL
May the Lord bless you and keep you in His tender care my FRiend.
What you describe is much like a game we played in Girl Scouts. Sitting in a circle, the ‘starter’ is given a sentence on a scrap of paper and whispers it to the person on her right, and so on, through the circle. The last person says the sentence out loud. It’s never even close to what’s on the paper!
I believe the mods read every abuse report.
What with your record of complaining about posts and threads which usually stay up, maybe you should quit bothering them with your thread nannying.
It gives them extra work they don't need
I did’nt push abuse that much, and when I did, it was usually acted upon.
My abuse pushing, however, is in the past. I always pushed the abuse button because I thought a post or thread would be counter to the principles of FR and an embarrassment to FR. But, there’s a new wind blowing at FR. I hope for the return of the days when embarrassing posts were frowned upon at FR.
BTW, go stalk someone else.
Good Afternoon DOPC,
Excellent response. I have also read the Koran as well, in 1971. Life is full of choices as to who we deem our friends or enemies.
On 9/11 I made my choice and each morning I touch my(Gold American Flag pendant which I wear on a gold chain around my neck. I repeat these words engraved on the back of the pendant,”Remember 9/11.”
I hope you will remember as well and be cautious in your house guests.
In closing, Sun Tzu was correct in saying know your enemies better than you know yourself.
P.S. When it comes to family everybody else is a stranger.
Respectfully,
NSNR
Good Afternoon F_I_N_F,
You are cordially entitled to your opinion as I am mine. Respectfully,
NSNR
Either prove your accusation or have it removed.
I’m tired of the clown talking points
Hey Jo,
I am beginning to hear the words “We are the world, We are the Children” being piped in as we speak the truth concerning the religion of Piss.
I do not like muslims one bit and wish we could deport them all. P.S. and their sympathizers/enablers as well.
Oh Damm!! Hope I did not offend anyone.
Respectfully,
NSNR
Good Afternoon Star Traveler,
Excellent Posts. I see Obuma will pick up a few votes from the weenies who have their head in the islamic feel good (hear no evil se no evil) sand.
I wonder if they will try to have us non-believers, Imused off the FR??
Never ever trust a muslim, one can see the serpent in their eyes.
Respectfully,
NSNR
I LOVED Girl Scouts. I went from Brownie to Senior Scout
in the 9th and 10th grade.
That game was called The Telephone Game, wasn’t it? The
sad little secret is that it was used as a device to keep us quiet
while the leaders took a break. LOL!
I loved campfire songs. Do you remember the one about the Titanic?
Oh it was sad. It was sad
It was sad when the great ship went down
(to the bottom of the)
Husbands and wifes, little children lost their lives
It was sad when the great ship went down.
No offense here NSNR.
There is only one way to defeat Islam and it is Ann
Coulter’s way ... convert them all the Christianity.
(not sarcasm)
No, happier songs I recall:
Make new friends
But keep the old
One is silver
But the other’s gold.
Jo, that would be a monumental task and a good idea.
One concept n how this imaginary(muslim) hero evolved. The Mothership # 19 was cloaked above Virginia Tech during the shooting and teleported a (muslim hologram)as a decoy for the shooter in order to save the one student’s life.
I think this concept has more realistic merit that some of the other hyperboles being offered as fact.
Respectfully,
NSNR
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