"To save one life is to save the world"

KMR is a Virginia Tech grad, Class of 1985 and this is an excerpt from an e-mail he sent today on the professor who laid down his life for his students:

One of the heroes of the event was a Rumanian Jew who had survived the Holocaust and the Communist occupation, later emigrated to Israel, and the came to Tech to teach engineering. That Professor was 77 years old, and his last lesson was to teach us all the meaning of sacrifice. The Professor held the classroom door against the gunman, and was killed when the gunman fired two shots through the door. His family is flying him back to Israel for burial. May he rest in bosom of Abraham.