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Silence can say more than a thousand words. This day shall unite us all about this unbelievable painful & shocking event and show some respect and love to those who lost their loved ones. On April 30th 2007, the Blogosphere will hold a One-Day Blog Silence in honor of the victims at Virginia Tech. More then 30 died at the US college massacre. But it´s not only about them. Many bloggers have responded and asked about all the other victims of our world. All the people who die every day. What about them? This day can be a symbol of support to all the victims of our world!

All you have to do is spread the word about it and post the graphic on your blog on 30th April 2007. No words and no comments. Just respect, reflection, and empathy.
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By Phillip Rawls, Associated Press Writer | April 11, 2007

MONTGOMERY, Ala. –Ann Romney, the wife of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, said Wednesday concerns about their Mormon faith disappear once people get to know them.

“I frankly am thinking at some point this is not going to be an issue,” she said.

Her husband, if elected, would be the nation’s first Mormon president. Campaigning in a state where Southern Baptist is the largest denomination, Ann Romney acknowledged that some people have concerns about her family’s faith.

“If anyone has a chance to see us, hear us, feel us, touch us, they are fine. There’s no problem at all,” she said in an interview.

Romney said that when people pick a heart surgeon, they want the best surgeon regardless of religious faith. “I think at some point they are going to have to ask the same thing about nominating and electing a president of the United States,” she said.

She told a meeting of the Alabama Federation of Republican Women that her husband has the expertise to lead the United States after years of turning around troubled businesses, bringing the Salt Lake Olympics back from debt and scandal, and erasing a $3 billion budget deficit while serving as governor of Massachusetts.

Romney also talked about her battle with multiple sclerosis. She recounted being too sick to get out of bed on Oct. 25, 1998, and then being diagnosed with MS. When her husband took the job as head of the 2002 Winter Olympics a few months later, “I was almost in a wheelchair,” she said.

Romney said she had to battle self-pity and depression. Some days she thought she was dying. “There were other times when I realized I wasn’t dying and I honestly wished I was dying,” she said.

But she said her family and her love of riding caused her to fight back and get a new perspective. She said she now realizes that everybody “has their own bag of rocks they are carrying over their shoulder,” whether it’s an illness, a divorce or a troubled child.

“It has given me a compassionate heart,” she said.

Click here, and watch this video of former Massachusetts, and future United States First Lady Ann Romney.