The flags are no longer at half mast, but we promise we will never forget. You have gone back to school, to the campus where all the horrific actions took place and we pray that you make wonderful memories so that slowly, but surely, the pain of those actions are replaced once again by the innocent laughter that a college student should have at this time in their life. We want you to know that we are lingering a little longer when we tuck our children in to bed. Not just to cherish them more than we already do, but to answer their endless questions about the horror that happened at Virginia Tech. My son now recognizes the VT and pointed it out to me on the dashboard of a NASCAR car on Saturday. The world is with you and thinking of you and praying for you. We can never understand what you went through and are going through, but we want you to understand that everywhere you turn you will have a shoulder to lean on and an ear to listen to anything you want to talk about. We want you to know that we are here for you, whenever you need us. My son asked why? Why were the people putting flowers on the killer's memorial, why mom? why would they do that? why does he deserve them? Because my love, my son, my life, because he needed help and he didn't get it. Because he has a mother who loves him more than life itself, as I love you. Because one of the things our God taught us is to forgive, as hard as it is sometimes, as much as it doesn't make sense. As all of us are talking to our children and all of us are watching what can happen when a person doesn't get the help they need, maybe this will open up a whole new chapter in the life of mental illness. Maybe people will be more likely to urge their friends to seek help if they think something is wrong Maybe our own children will understand why it is so important to get help if they ever feel like they need someone to talk to outside of their families. All I know right now is that we will remember all of the bright beautiful faces that were taken away from this world way too soon. We will always remember the bravery of a teacher who had survived some of the world's most horrific events, the Holocaust, only to die at the hands of a disturbed student%