A Heroic Professor

Among the dead of VA Tech massacre, there was a 77-year-old professor who was killed by the shooter while trying to hold a door shut so that some of his engineering students could escape.

In the middle of his lecture, they heard screams and a loud banging sound from the next-door classroom. They realized there were gunshots. Some students hid behind tables. Some students jumped from the window. But their professor ran to the door to block it with his body to prevent the gunman from entering his class. His heroic act saved some lives.

Professor Liviu Librescuis was a citizen of Israel and a Holocaust survivor. He had experienced evil, yet he chose to do what is good.

"Do not fret because of evil men or be envious of those who do wrong" (Psalm 37:1)

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