By Amy Green
Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
Blacksburg, Va.
— Larissa Mihalisko remembers when she forgave the shooter. It
was at a candlelight vigil after Seung-Hui Cho killed four students and a
faculty member she knew at Virginia Tech. She felt her heart release
its anger, she says, and decided instead to carry out what had been in
the hearts of her friends. Building homes in Appalachia. Helping the
recovery from hurricane Katrina. This fall she'll do both.
"I
realized there's a lot more to life than blaming him and being angry,"
says Ms. Mihalisko, a senior in international studies who became friends
with one student killed in the shootings while doing Katrina volunteer
work. "It was a relief." Read more here.
