One of the pastors who stepped in to assist with counseling students at Virginia Tech during the first days after the shooting was Bill Litman, Pastor of Independent Churches of Christ, who also has a student affairs background. We asked him share his observations with us. –C.S. My first observation when I arrived in Blacksburg on Tuesday, April 17, was similar to what I’ve observed outside hospital rooms, and after fires, tornadoes, and other places where crisis has struck: people moving about, at times shuffling, but with no real sense of direction. The difference at Blacksburg was that the number of people moving was in the thousands.