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The war in Iraq has definitely taken its toll from fraternities nation wide. Only the good die young.

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity is the nation’s first and largest predominately Black Greek-letter fraternity.

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This is a bit late. I know very little about the Virginia Tech shooting incident itself except the bits I saw on TV, but what I read about Zach Petkewicz triggered me to include this and highlight the fraternity this real hero is part of.

"Zach Petkewicz is one of the heroes, but when the shooting started, his first reaction was fear.
"I crouched down like everybody else," he told Matt Lauer on TODAY. "I got behind the teacher’s podium. Initially it was just fear."

But the gunshots and screams coming through the walls of his Norris Hall classroom didn’t go away. Petkewicz was "just hearing gunshots — eventually, the gunshots got closer."

Petkewicz looked at the classroom door. It struck him that "There’s nothing stopping him from coming in here. We were just sitting ducks."

Galvanized to action, Petkewicz grabbed a table and with his classmates shoved it against the door. Students stood at each end of the table holding it to the cinderblock walls around the door frame.

The shooter, Cho Seung Hui, his bloody work done in the classroom next door, "tried the door handle" Petkewicz said. Finding the door blocked, he threw his shoulder against it, forcing it open six inches. "

Petkewicz has such a casual, shrugging style of describing the incident. The brothers at SAE have created a blog which people can write comments.

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