Photo SpecialVirginia 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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JEREMY HERBSTRITT, 27

The avid long-distance runner was remembered by his grandfather Thomas as a "studious kid" who liked to tinker with machinery. Herbstritt, who grew up on a small farm in central Pennsylvania where his father raised sheep and steer, was a VT graduate student who had ambitions to pursue a career in environmental work.

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