At 10:00AM this morning, the bell tower at Belmont University announced the top of the hour, then tolled 33 slow strokes that seemed to echo forever across the cloudy campus. No announcement was made as to what was coming, but the group gathered for prayer at the base of the tower knew that each chime of that bell represented a fallen student at Virginia Tech. I am sure that there were others like me who wondered if the knell would ever end...that, is a topic for another day.
