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Sunday marks the 10th anniversary of the deadliest campus shooting in American history. Survivors²' and victims' families will gather at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg to remember the 32 people who were killed. Many others were injured in the attack, and still more witnessed it and escaped unharmed. As NPR's Sarah McCammon reports, even they carry psychological wounds.

SARAH MCCAMMON, BYLINE³: On April 16, 2007, the bullets missed Lisa Hamp. She walked out of her computer class, but she has memories from that day that will never go away. They start out pretty mundane⁴ - in her classroom inside Norris Hall at Virginia Tech.

LISA HAMP: Typical computer science class - they're putting some code on the board, and we're just writing it down, confused (laughter). And so I mean once we heard the sounds, everyone sort of stopped. It was like, what's going on?

MCCAMMON: Two people went outside to find out, and they were fired upon. The shooter missed, giving the class just enough time to barricade⁵ the door.

HAMP: It was literally⁶, like, table up, desk up, shooter at the door. It was a matter of seconds. He would kick it, and the door would, like, swing open a foot, and we would push back.

MCCAMMON: Hamp and her classmates were fortunate. Unlike so many others, they were able to keep the shooter out. In the aftermath, Hamp says she struggled to figure out how she was supposed to feel.

HAMP: I think I thought that, you know, I was undeserving; I was unworthy, that I lucked out, that I just needed to be quiet and make myself small because there's this other population of people who have it so much more worse than you do, so you just sort of need to shut up, hold it in and keep moving. But that doesn't really work in terms of recovering and healing.

MCCAMMON: Hamp spent years struggling with an eating disorder⁷ that she says contributed to infertility⁸ before she finally decided⁹ to seek help. And it worked. At 31, she now lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and infant daughter.

Clayton Violand was in another classroom in the same building that day. He says he was the only student to walk out of his French class physically¹⁰ unharmed. Some didn't make it out at all.

CLAYTON VIOLAND: It was very confusing for me to be in that position of not being physically injured.

MCCAMMON: Violand spoke¹¹ on his cell phone from Germany where he now lives with his girlfriend and works as a data scientist for a solar energy company.

VIOLAND: The main question for me was kind of, where do I place myself? Am I a victim? Am I not a victim?

MCCAMMON: Violand says that question has been the central theme of years of therapy since the Virginia Tech shooting. He's struggled with anxiety and survivor¹'s guilt¹².

VIOLAND: I'd like to say that the shooter took my lightness away, my lightness of life. It's kind of harder to see the good side of things sometimes.

MCCAMMON: Colin Goddard was in the same classroom with Violand and was shot four times. He still has bullet fragments in his body, but he feels fortunate.

COLIN GODDARD: I have scars, you know? But you know, if you saw me on the street, you'd never know. You know, I'm very lucky.

MCCAMMON: Goddard says he received an outpouring of support as he recovered and the chance to reach out to other injured survivors. Goddard is now married and an MBA student in the Washington, D.C., area.

UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: (Cooing).

MCCAMMON: Holding his cooing infant daughter on his lap as he speaks, Goddard says he worries about Violand and others who didn't get the same kind of support.

GODDARD: I just think that, you know, if you saw, if you heard, if you were in that building, you know, you were just as victimized and traumatized as everybody else was, you know?

UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: (Cooing).

GODDARD: Yeah.

MCCAMMON: Some survivors, including Lisa Hamp, feel Virginia Tech could have done more to help students who witnessed the events of April 16.

HAMP: To be included and treated as a survivor - it's really that simple - sort of acknowledgement and recognition that what we went through is traumatic.

MCCAMMON: A Virginia Tech spokesman says thousands of people were deeply affected¹³ by the shootings, and the university has focused its highest level of support on families of those killed and those who were physically injured. Hamp has raised several thousand dollars to send other survivors to the 10-year anniversary events. She says she hopes the weekend will be a time of healing for everyone, whether they have physical scars or not. Sarah McCammon, NPR News.

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Among those physically injured during the Virginia Tech shooting was Kristin Anderson (ph). Tomorrow on WEEKEND EDITION, she talks about the organization she started to help prepare schools for similar scenarios¹⁴.

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1 survivor   

n.生存者，残存者，幸存者

参考例句：

• The sole survivor of the crash was an infant.这次撞车的惟一幸存者是一个婴儿。
• There was only one survivor of the plane crash.这次飞机失事中只有一名幸存者。

2 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

3 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

4 mundane   

adj.平凡的；尘世的；宇宙的

参考例句：

• I hope I can get an interesting job and not something mundane.我希望我可以得到的是一份有趣的工作，而不是一份平凡无奇的。
• I find it humorous sometimes that even the most mundane occurrences can have an impact on our awareness.我发现生活有时挺诙谐的，即使是最平凡的事情也能影响我们的感知。

5 barricade   

n.路障，栅栏，障碍；vt.设路障挡住

参考例句：

• The soldiers make a barricade across the road.士兵在路上设路障。
• It is difficult to break through a steel barricade.冲破钢铁障碍很难。

6 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。

7 disorder   

n.紊乱，混乱；骚动，骚乱；疾病，失调

参考例句：

• When returning back,he discovered the room to be in disorder.回家后，他发现屋子里乱七八糟。
• It contained a vast number of letters in great disorder.里面七零八落地装着许多信件。

8 infertility   

n.不肥沃，不毛；不育

参考例句：

• It is the Geneva, Switzerland-based Biotech Company's second recombinant infertility drug. 它是瑞士生物技术公司在日内瓦的公司生产的第二种重组治疗不孕症的药。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 生物技术制药疫苗
• Endometritis is a cause of infertility. 子宫内膜炎是不育的原子。 来自辞典例句

9 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

10 physically   

adj.物质上，体格上，身体上，按自然规律

参考例句：

• He was out of sorts physically,as well as disordered mentally.他浑身不舒服，心绪也很乱。
• Every time I think about it I feel physically sick.一想起那件事我就感到极恶心。

11 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

12 guilt   

n.犯罪；内疚；过失，罪责

参考例句：

• She tried to cover up her guilt by lying.她企图用谎言掩饰自己的罪行。
• Don't lay a guilt trip on your child about schoolwork.别因为功课责备孩子而使他觉得很内疚。

13 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。

14 scenarios   

n.[意]情节；剧本；事态；脚本

参考例句：

• Further, graphite cores may be safer than non-graphite cores under some accident scenarios. 再者，根据一些事故解说，石墨堆芯可比非石墨堆芯更安全一些。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
• Again, scenarios should make it clear which modes are acceptable to users in various contexts. 同样，我们可以运用场景剧本来搞清楚在不同情境下哪些模式可被用户接受。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓