Today is Hookie Hope Day, according to the Virginia governor. For mourners of the VT tradgedy, orange and maroon is the color of the day. Apparently VT officials sent around a memo yesterday stating students did not have to participate. So what, right?

Well today, parents and Alumni groups are "outraged" now because of VT's memo they claim discourages people from mourning.

What?

Do people honestly have nothing else to do but FIND fault, find a fight, find something to complain about? This was intended to be a day of support, solidarity, and mourning for the victims, friends, and family. Does that mean that everyone HAS to wear orange and maroon? The faculty was obviously letting kids know that if they were uncomfortable participating, it wasn't mandatory.

Free Speech is extremely important (in fact, it's what keeps people coming back to my blog..haha), but does every Tom, Dick, and Harry really need to behave as though their world is ending based on the behavior of others? We can disagree all we want; our opinions are just as valid as the next person...but stop and THINK about what people intended to say, or actually have said before we blow up and turn things like a positive attempt at beginning the healing process, into a media circus all because of some ridiculous statement that has NOTHING to do with your personal choice to mourn the victims of this tragedy.

People never cease to amaze me at the lengths they will go to just to end up looking like an idiot.

~Dubya