BLACKSBURG, Va. ― Kristina Anderson cried a lot the first time she publicly told her story.
Now it’s easier.
Now it’s a form of therapy as she works to glean some kind of purpose from something as illogical as random acts of campus violence.
It’s been seven years since she was shot three times as she hugged a desk in a Virginia Tech classroom on a Monday morning that has become known around here simply as April 16.
It took two years before she would talk publicly about the day 32 people were killed on Tech’s campus. Today it almost feels like the Tech grad does it professionally.
She talks about the “what ifs” of not just that day, but also others that serve as reminders of the tragedies that could strike on any college campus.
What if there had been some kind of mobile app in 2007 that Virginia Tech students could have used to report suspicious behavior they saw in the days leading up to April 16?
