Mourners gather on VT anniversary

BLACKSBURG, VA. A sea of people clad in maroon and orange, some with heads tearfully bowed, others with arms interlocked, paid tribute yesterday to the victims who died a year ago in the nation’s worst mass shooting in modern history.

The accomplishments of each of the 32 people echoed across the drill field, a litany of what they had done and planned to do before a student gunman killed them in classrooms and a dormitory.

About 50 people laid down in protest of Virginia’s gun laws. The protesters stretched out on the grass for three minutes, to symbolize the amount of time they say it takes to buy a gun in Virginia.