Steven Christman

[Cute Puppy🐯🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🐢❤ @sks161992]

"The hunter becomes the hunted. Never underestimate a mother's instinct. 🦁🦅 #Wildlife #NatureIsWild"
​"An eagle thought it had an easy meal, but it picked the wrong cub. Wild turn of events! 😱🔥 #Nature #Animals"

[Joe Pags Pagliarulo @Backupjoepags1]

Raise your hand if you want to see Tina Forte defeat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the next election! ✋

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

He told his students to go to the windows.
Get out. Jump if you have to.
Then Liviu Librescu walked to the classroom door and pressed his body against it.
He was 76 years old. He weighed 140 lbs
The gunman was in the hallway.
It was April 16, 2007. A Monday morning. Solid mechanics class at Virginia Tech, Room 204. Twenty-two students, most of them 19 or 20 years old.
At 9:45 AM, gunshots echoed through Norris Hall. Room by room, the shooter was working his way down the corridor.
Liviu heard it. He understood immediately.
He had survived the Holocaust. He had survived a labor camp. He had spent decades living under Communist oppression. He knew exactly what evil sounded like.
He told his students to escape through the windows. Second floor — it was a drop, but they'd survive. Then he walked to the door and held it shut with his body.
The shooter tried to force it open. It wouldn't move.
He fired through the door. Wood splintered. Bullets came through.
Liviu stayed.
Behind him, students were climbing out the windows. Dropping to the ground. Running. One by one, all twenty-two of them got out.
The shooter kept firing through the door.
Liviu held it shut until every student was safe.
Then the bullets killed him.
When police arrived, they found his body at the door.
All 22 of his students survived. Not one was injured.
Liviu Librescu was born on August 18, 1930, in Ploiești, Romania.
He was Jewish. In 1941, when he was eleven years old, Romanian authorities sent him and his family to a labor camp. His father died there. Liviu survived. When the war ended, he was fifteen.
He went back to school. Studied engineering. Earned a doctorate from the University of Bucharest.
But Communist Romania had no interest in allowing a Jewish intellectual to succeed. He was blocked from academic positions. Passed over for jobs he deserved. He applied to emigrate. The government kept refusing.
Finally, in 1978 when Liviu was 48 years old — Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin personally intervened. Romania let him go.
He had spent most of his adult life trapped in a country that didn't want him.
In Israel, he taught at Tel Aviv University. Published over 300 papers. Became an international expert in aeroelasticity — the science of how air flows over aircraft wings.
In 1985, Virginia Tech offered him a position. He moved to Blacksburg, Virginia. He taught there for 22 years. His students loved him — demanding but kind, high standards, genuine care.
He was still teaching full-time at 76. Still publishing research. Still showing up every Monday morning for solid mechanics.
April 16 was the first day of Passover — the Jewish holiday celebrating liberation from slavery and oppression.
Liviu Librescu died on the day his tradition sets aside to celebrate freedom.
He spent his entire life escaping death and oppression by luck, by persistence, by the intervention of others. And on his last morning, he chose to stand at a door so that twenty-two young people could have the future he had fought so hard to reach.
He could have run. He could have hidden. He could have climbed out a window with his students.
He chose to stay.
The Virginia Tech shooting killed 32 people that day — the deadliest school shooting in American history at the time.
Room 204 had zero casualties.
Because a 76-year-old Holocaust survivor held a door with his body until every student behind him was gone.
His funeral was held in Israel. Students from Virginia Tech flew across the ocean to honor him. The Israeli government awarded him the Star of David Medal posthumously. Virginia Tech named a scholarship in his memory.
His son said his father died the way he lived — protecting others.
A man who survived everything evil threw at him for 76 years.
On his last day, he made sure 22 kids survived too.
Professor Liviu Librescu. August 18, 1930 — April 16, 2007.
Holocaust survivor. Labor camp survivor.
302 published papers. 22 years at Virginia Tech.
22 students out the window.
He held the door.

[Steven Christman @IndySteve53]

@RealLauraSteele Listen to your body!!

[Steven Christman @IndySteve53]

@luxariiaxo 72 and I am a big fan

[The American @Pattheamerican]

Hey Mamdani! Sincerely, all Italians!

[Steven Christman @IndySteve53]

@Jamesjonesik8 Your loss

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

Exactly. 👍🏻

[Steven Christman @IndySteve53]

@GoldenAgeUnfold noooooo

[Rev Dr Charles Harrison @charlesharriso5]

I'm getting calls from residents who live in neighborhoods all across Indianapolis and central Indiana concerning the violence. The public knows that I'm not going to BS them about the violence. We have a broken judicial system in Indianapolis with repeat, violent offenders at both the adult and juvenile levels. There is no real accountability to deter future acts of violence. We also have a parenting problem in the city when it comes to juvenile violence. There are too many juveniles, youth, and young adults who have no moral compass and no regard for the sanctity of human life. I'm sorry, but you cannot do drive-by shootings in neighborhoods without severe consequences. You cannot shoot, injure, or kill people without facing severe repercussions. Society has to draw a line in the sand that no one can cross without accountability. I must love my neighbor enough to try to save my neighbor from themselves and from harming others.

[Steven Christman @IndySteve53]

@its_Lexieroy Listen to her podcast please

[Steven Christman @IndySteve53]

@Sahar393815 Spring bar Attches band to watch

[OutKick @Outkick]

Japanese fans cleaning up after the game 🥹

[Steven Christman @IndySteve53]

@atensnut 19

[Steven Christman @IndySteve53]

@WorkElizab Yes

[Steven Christman @IndySteve53]

@uscfan981 Drunk

[Steven Christman @IndySteve53]

@Zack_magaig It’s been that way for years

[Trumps Nephew @ForgiatoBlow47]

TINA FORTE IS RUNNING AGAINST AOC IN NEW YORK'S 14TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT

PLEASE SHARE LETS GET HER NAME OUT THERE

[Steven Christman @IndySteve53]

@igchampcom Brainwashed

[Hazel Moore @HazelMoore32]

Please re-post... share... Enough of AOC.