悼念維吉尼亞校園槍殺案的華人遇難者，學校新生 Henry Lee

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The boy who was Henh Ly became Henry Lee not long before he graduated from William Fleming High School in June, where he was his class salutatorian. He was ecstatic after earning his U.S. citizenship last year, more than 13 years since his family immigrated from China by way of Vietnam. According to his friends, he was a thoroughly American teenager. Diminutive in stature, he was large on energy.

"He was a shy person when you first got to know him, but once you were friends with he was the most wacky and funny and spastic person," said Amanda Theller, a close friend at Fleming who is now a freshman at Liberty University. One of his internet screen names was "spasticdude," Theller said.

Silly as he could be, he was intensely competitive academically, and arrived at Tech to study computer science with a raft of scholarships. He followed two siblings to Tech.

He was painfully reluctant to give his salutatorian speech at graduation in June, said friends and Fleming Principal Susan Lawyer Willis. He was talked into it, though, and by the end of it had Willis in tears.

The saddest thing, said Willis, is that "the world is going to miss what he had to offer."

[ 本帖最後由 EagleEye 於 2007-4-18 08:13 編輯 ]