OK.. In the President's brief address in Blacksburg on Tuesday, he stated that the victims were "at the wrong place at the wrong time".....Classrooms and Dorms?

Where exactly were they supposed to be?

Maybe its me....But I don't understand that statement..

This is the transcript:

For Immediate Release April 17, 2007



REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT

AT VIRGINIA TECH MEMORIAL CONVOCATION


Cassell Coliseum

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, Virginia



2:36 P.M. EDT



THE PRESIDENT: Governor, thank you. President Steger, thank you very much. Students, and faculty, and staff, and grieving family members, and members of this really extraordinary place.


Laura and I have come to Blacksburg today with hearts full of sorrow. This is a day of mourning for the Virginia Tech community -- and it is a day of sadness for our entire nation. We've come to express our sympathy. In this time of anguish, I hope you know that people all over this country are thinking about you, and asking God to provide comfort for all who have been affected.


Yesterday began like any other day. Students woke up, and they grabbed their backpacks and they headed for class. And soon the day took a dark turn, with students and faculty barricading themselves in classrooms and dormitories -- confused, terrified, and deeply worried. By the end of the morning, it was the worst day of violence on a college campus in American history -- and for many of you here today, it was the worst day of your lives.


It's impossible to make sense of such violence and suffering. Those whose lives were taken did nothing to deserve their fate. They were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Now they're gone -- and they leave behind grieving families, and grieving classmates, and a grieving nation.


In such times as this, we look for sources of strength to sustain us. And in this moment of loss, you're finding these sources everywhere around you. These sources of strength are in this community, this college community. You have a compassionate and resilient community here at Virginia Tech. Even as yesterday's events were still unfolding, members of this community found each other; you came together in dorm rooms and dining halls and on blogs. One recent graduate wrote this: "I don't know most of you guys, but we're all Hokies, which means we're family. To all of you who are okay, I'm happy for that. For those of you who are in pain or have lost someone close to you, I'm sure you can call on anyone of us and have help any time you need it."


These sources of strength are with your loved ones. For many of you, your first instinct was to call home and let your moms and dads know that you were okay. Others took on the terrible duty of calling the relatives of a classmate or a colleague who had been wounded or lost. I know many of you feel awfully far away from people you lean on and people you count on during difficult times. But as a dad, I can assure you, a parent's love is never far from their child's heart. And as you draw closer to your own families in the coming days, I ask you to reach out to those who ache for sons and daughters who will never come home.


These sources of strength are also in the faith that sustains so many of us. Across the town of Blacksburg and in towns all across America, houses of worship from every faith have opened their doors and have lifted you up in prayer. People who have never met you are praying for you; they're praying for your friends who have fallen and who are injured. There's a power in these prayers, real power. In times like this, we can find comfort in the grace and guidance of a loving God. As the Scriptures tell us, "Don't be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good."


And on this terrible day of mourning, it's hard to imagine that a time will come when life at Virginia Tech will return to normal. But such a day will come. And when it does, you will always remember the friends and teachers who were lost yesterday, and the time you shared with them, and the lives they hoped to lead. May God bless you. May God bless and keep the souls of the lost. And may His love touch all those who suffer and grieve. (Applause

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Maybe the confusion lay in the fact that this phrase is an idiom. When somebody says that another person (or they themselves) were at the "wrong place at the wrong time," what they mean is that something bad happened that was not their fault(s) at all. I've noticed this for a while. I think the phrase should be changed to suit the situation. For example, "wrong place at the right time," "right place at the wrong time," and "right place at the right time." All of these phrases would refer to an event that occurred unrelated to any activity of the participant or victim that would lead to them causing such an event. In other words, regardless of the phrase used, what happened there was none of their fault(s).

Something tells me I just made it even more confusing.

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Maybe he was trying to say that these things happen and the victims just happens to be there. They had the bad luck of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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Yeah, it seems clear that this was actually a case of "right place at wrong time". Maybe we should add that to our list of idioms. Seems to me it's more common than "wrong place at wrong time".

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With a shooter on the loose I consider a college campus to be the "wrong place.” All the security guards are unarmed and practically the entire zone is a strict “Gun Free Zone.” (probably how he had the time to murder 32 and wound 20+ with a .9mm and .22 ).

I’d feel better in an airport in September.

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You could say that the Twin Towers atrocity was a case of the victims just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.