What a contrast between life in the USA and Iraq! The horrible event at Virginia Tech is unusual in this country, but in Iraq, massacres are a daily event – many with a death toll far higher than at Virginia Tech.

There is an investigation of college officials in Virginia to see who is to blame. However, to any thinking person, it is obvious who is to blame for the Iraqi massacres. It is also obvious that the person to blame does not live in Iraq.

Let us mourn for the lives lost in Virginia, and also for the lives lost in Iraq. What a sad world we live in.

Frank Greenwood, Jay