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[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.

[Holy Bible @Holy__Bible1]

𝐻𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝐹𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟, 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑘 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒, 𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑦, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑒. 𝐼 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑙𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡, 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑚𝑒. 𝐿𝑜𝑟𝑑, 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑠𝑑𝑜𝑚 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑑𝑒���𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠, 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑡ℎ 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑚𝑠 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑟. 𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑦 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑠, 𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑚𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑚𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑙𝑘 𝑖𝑛 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑑𝑎𝑦. 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑚𝑦 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠. 𝐵𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑢𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑡ℎ, 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒. 𝐹𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑢𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑒, 𝑗𝑜𝑦, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑡ℎ, 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠. 𝑇𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝑌𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒, 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑎 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑. 𝑀𝑎𝑦 𝑚𝑦 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑔𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒. 𝐼 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑚𝑦 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠, 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑠. 𝐼𝑛 𝐽𝑒𝑠𝑢𝑠’ 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒, 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑛.

[Drew Lock @DrewLock23]

Truly at a loss for words. My Family and l are incredibly honored. It's hard to put into words what this means to us.

I'll always have so much love for the state of Missouri and for Mizzou Football. I'm forever grateful to Mizzou Athletics and the University of Missouri for this incredible honor.

Thank you to everyone who was apart of this journey. These memories and this recognition will stay with me for the rest of time! MIZ!

[Barstool Mizzou @BarstoolMizzou]

Well deserved! Congratulations @_nickbolton2

[JP 🥩 @1234jscot]

@truth_ac I need to quit taking it all for granted. 😔

[Buddy_Lee05 @Buddy_Lee05]

@davidpollack47 @USMNT Think Mizzou.

[Chris Maathuis @sports8]

Check this out. Hoover Dam launches ‘Road To America 250’
This flag is the length of a football field and it will be on display every day through July 4th #RoadToAmerica250 #HooverDam

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

SCOOP: Owner of leftist merch shop which promotes child m*tilation and p**n books for kids is VP of Independence School District in Missouri, Wendy Baird.

Her shop includes slogans such as:

“teaching is activism”
“Protect trans kids”
“Read banned books”

She also has anti-Josh Hawley merch and self-identifies as a “nasty liberal bitch.”

This is who’s in charge of your kids’ education.

Does @ISDSchools approve this messaging?

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

KANSAS SCHOOL REFUSES TO HONOR DECEASED STUDENT

Mother BLASTS @olatheschools for REFUSING to mention her deceased son, who was kiIIed in a crash, at the school's upcoming graduation.

"What should have been a quiet moment of recognition of his existence and accomplishment for those of us who knew and continued to love Treyton shouldn't be taken away."

Petition to honor him in comments. Please consider signing.

[Chase Daniel @ChaseDaniel]

Legendary covers….#MIZ

[Kent Murphy @KentMurphy]

His grandad left an old bucket of balls at the batting cages they used to visit with this note on them…

I’m not crying, you’re crying 🥺⚾

[🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 @Real_RobN]

Here it is:

“Little Adolf” Nick Fuentes on Jan. 6—with a bullhorn, instructing people to overthrow the U.S. government and storm the Capitol.

In other words: Out of the tens of thousands of Trump supporters present, the only two people—Nick Fuentes and Ray Epps—who were captured on videotape, no less, urging others to overthrow the U.S. government did not face solitary confinement, seditious conspiracy charges, or any charges at all. In fact, the January 6 Committee covered it up.

📝And don’t you fucking dare tell me Ray Epps was charged with a single misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct on restricted grounds.

[MamawInKY 🇺🇸 @MamawInKentucky]

@Real_RobN @THEDuaneCates Fuentes admits he's a Democrat.
https://t.co/JI4pHWbwNi

[FunBaseballFacts @FunBaseballFact]

Today in 1982: Jim Eisenreich, a rookie outfielder for the Twins hitting .309, left the game at Fenway in the middle of an inning.

He suffered from twitching and it became uncontrollable when Boston fans continuously taunted him.

When the team returned to Minnesota, Jim checked into a hospital for treatment. Doctors diagnosed him with Tourette's Syndrome.

He tried several comebacks the next few years, but could never control his symptoms. He retired from baseball in 1984.

Over the next two years, doctors found a way to treat his Tourette’s, and Jim returned to baseball in 1987 with Kansas City. He was named the MVP of the 1989 Royals, a team that featured Bo Jackson and George Brett.

After his comeback, he went on to play 12 more years in the big leagues, and batted over .300 in 5 of those seasons.

He now has a foundation that helps children with Tourette’s Syndrome.
#MLB #baseball #Royals @TouretteAssn

[Buddy_Lee05 @Buddy_Lee05]

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