Virginia Tech Tragedy: The Lives Lost

From the freshman with a "luminous smile" to the hero Holocaust survivor who helped save his students' lives, see the portraits of the victims

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PARTAHI LUMBANTORUAN, 34

Lumbantoruan, or "Mora" as he was called by friends, was two semesters away from achieving his dream of becoming a teacher. He left Indonesia three years ago to pursue a doctoral degree in civil engineering, and he was one of 16 Indonesian students at VT, the Times reports. "We wanted him to succeed," said his father, Tohom Lumbantoruan, a retired military officer whose family sold property and cars to help his son pay the $8,000 a semester he needed for tuition, "but he met a tragic fate."