What to do?

clipped from news.yahoo.com BLACKSBURG, Va. - Like the people of New York, Oklahoma City and Littleton, Colo., the Virginia Tech community faces a difficult decision on what it will do with the scene of a tragedy. Ideas for the building's future range from returning it to use as classrooms to making it a memorial or even knocking it down. There are examples around the nation of how others have dealt with sites of overnight infamy. Every evening, the University of Texas at Austin illuminates the clock tower where sniper Charles Whitman climbed to the 28th floor and killed 16 and wounded 31 on Aug. 1, 1966. Most of the killings in the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., occurred in the library. Officials built an atrium on the site and placed a new library that includes a memorial to the 12 students and one teacher killed by two student shooters. he bombed-out Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was razed after Timothy McVeigh set off explosives that killed 168 people on April 19, 1995.