Posted on 04/17/2007 12:41:47 PM PDT by Rutles4Ever
Her smile shines out of the pictures posted on the Facebook website under the title of “Why Emily Hilscher was cooler than me”.
The girl who is believed to have obsessed the Virginia Tech killer, Cho Seung-Hui - and may have been his first victim - had a lot of friends. More than 200 had posted tributes on the website today.
Ella Miller, an old class mate, wrote: “I remember her untieing my shoes with a fork, when we played in the woods around her house in the club house, going to the beach with her and her family. Spending the night at her house and staying up late playing cards, her teaching me how to play the saxaphone, summer crab feasts, swimming in the river, jumping on trampolines in the rain, backstreet boys concert, her putting worms on her nose lol...and it wasn’t just her personality - she was gorgeous!!”
Photographs on the same website show a pretty young woman, preparing for a toga party, going on an 8th grade field trip, and arriving at her high school prom. Described as a straight “A” student, Ms Hilscher, 18, spent most of her free time horse riding and hoped to become a vet.
”I’m interested in pretty much everything,” she wrote on her MySpace page, in which she refers to herself as “The Pixie”.
She added: “My friends are what keeps me smiling. I’m into snowboard, riding and music. Give me something I can bang my head to or dance like crazy, and I’m all over it.”
Ms Hilscher had met a new boyfriend, about whom she gushed about on her page. “I live, love and get booted but eventually that will change...I now have a wonderful guy who is hopefully going to change all of that.” College friends said her new boyfriend had just dropped her off before the massacre.
Ms Hilscher, a first year student who was studying animal and poultry sciences and equine science, was the next-door neighbour of Ryan Clark, a residential adviser at the dormitory where the shooting started.
It is believed that a morning argument in the dormitory at the Virginia Tech campus led Cho to kill the teenager and Mr Clark who had attempted to come to her aid.
Her grandmother, Merle Hilscher, 71, described the tight bond Emily had with big sister Erica, 21, who attended a nearby university. “They were very close all their lives,” she said.
“Now one of them is ended, but we have to carry on.”
On her Facebook tribute page today, Cody Yager wrote: “Emily was one of my first friends here at [Virginia] Tech. How could such a beautiful soul be removed from our lives?”
Will Sonnett from Rappahannock County High School in rural Virginia, said: “Emily Hilscher was cooler than me because she could make friends with a glance and a smile. She never hesitated to make someone, anyone feel at home with kindness and an open mind. Thanks for being awesome to lame little 8th graders, and for making stupid computer classes unforgettable.”
I just heard an interview with the roommates brother by Mark Levin.. very mature young man. His brother is in hiding.
I don’t mean her any harm, but as I stated in my first post this story seems to paint her like an angel.
Posts like yours are precisely the kind that enable the left and the mainstream media to dismiss this excellent site as a meeting place for cranks, kooks, malcontents, and misanthropes. Of course you meant her harm---why the hell even bring what you brought up in the first place if you didn't feel like it was your duty to knock her down a peg or two?
You have no class at all. I would expect more from someone with "Go Navy" on their FR homepage, but I'm really not surprised by anything these days. I hope you're not a grad.
Oh, that will really solve things, won’t it?
Drudge states the perp may have been on anti depressants. How about banning mood altering drugs????
Instead of gun bans.
hey archie, they’re are called tramp stamps now...
the campus police probably wouldn’t do anything because it would be racial profiling, and everyone in the country is afraid of that term.
That is very wise advice for anyone. I would extend it to include any form of digital communication.
I think his soul was mangled in all kinds of distortions not only his love life!
He hated the rich American, his profesors, and other things!
I wonder if Cho Seung-Hui read the works of Sayyid Qutb who Osama Ben Layden was a follower of?
Nice post, by the way
Do you have some kind of problem? I would bet that almost everyone reading this thread has about had it with your attitude regarding this tragedy.
Actually, I think that it was an excellent post. The analysis by Hemingway’s Ghost is spot on!
The garbage you've been posting to this thread is another story entirely. You're not going to investigate this tragedy????
You're a legend in your own mind.
Now you’re just being silly.
Exactly how do you get dropped off at YOUR dorm at 6:30AM unless you just spent the night somewhere else? I suspect Cho-boy was stalking her since one of his roommates said he had been up early every morning recently - probably so he could observe her returning from her overnights with the boyfriend. That dude is lucky he didn’t start with him and work his way up to her! I would have thought he’d have off’d the boyfriend first!
Thanks!
Hemingway’s Ghost and wireman...I agree with both of you in your posts #262 and #272 respectively....I read Visions post #38, before it was removed...I can only say, thankfully the mods saw fit to remove such a post...
You’re right that IS tagline material! I just scrolled up to my post, though, to find my usual Schopenhauer tagline GONE! Wha’ happen’d! Must have erased it by accident-—
It was “Talent hits a target no one else can hit, but genius hits a target no one else can see”.
Sick!
What are you talking about?
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