It is all the more painful to see, among the VT victims, internationals who came to the U.S. only to meet such a horrific end. Some were the best and brightest. Some suffered and survived before coming to the U.S. That was a violation of what America strives to be: a sanctuary, a refuge, a beacon, a model. It may seems brazen for a young nation to be a model, but shouldn't all countries strive to be models?

Memory HoleJames Fallows of the Atlantic Monthly and Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post pointed out The Chicago Sun Times blundered in incorrectly "identifying" the VT shooter as a Chinese man (a 25-year-old student from Shanghai). Some media ports even went so far as to misdirect people to an innocent student. As another blog noted Google never forgets.

Google cache shows the scrubbing extends to other sites, here shown is NBC-5 Chicago, that took advantage of Sneed's poor journalism. Both versions of the above web post are noted as being [POSTED: 6:10 pm CDT April 16, 2007].

Ugh, I'm repulsed by the disturbingly blunted affect of that mug shown over all the media. I'm thankful that the Korean community was quick to condemn the act because in no way can that man represent them.