Virginia Tech Tribute Produced by Members of HALO Online Gaming Community (VIDEO)

Online gamers strongly affected by the Virginia Tech killings produced this tearful, solemn and reverent video and audio tribute.

Patrick Horsley and Jeremy Hussey of the Human Armed Forces Halo clan

(SOPHIA, N.C.) - In the past couple of weeks, an eruption of feelings have swept across the United States affecting nearly everyone. The cause of the intense emotional feelings are the massive killings at Virginia Tech.

College students and their families aren't the only people who were affected. For a number of reasons, many online gamers were greatly impacted by what happened that day. We are talking about a group of people that number in the millions.

In considering how many of all the multi-player games on the Web have to do with killing or destroying some kind of enemy, and with the growing intensity of today's technology, who is to say that the killer might have gotten some of the ideas from an online game? Or maybe he got the ideas from another similar massive killings like Columbine?

Either way, it affects the online community in many ways. One way it has personally affected me, was that on the same exact day of the shootings, the University of Tennessee was evacuated due to a bomb threat and that isn't very far from where I live.

So one of my best friends who uses the name [HAF]Foxtrot and I, from the same online gaming Clan, decided to create a tribute for all of the victims that died that day and we invited members of the Halo CE community to help us to mourn the loss of all of the students and faculty that died that tragic day.

Our group in the online gaming community, The Human Armed Forces clan, haf.aowc.net started in November of 2005.

The Human Armed Forces team believes that in the end, we all must remember the importance of keeping fictitious scenarios in perspective with reality, and separated completely from any real life scenarios. Our hearts to out to everyone at Virginia Tech and the countless people who are affected by it.

We are an Army of Many, a Family of One. The Human Armed Forces. Elite video game and Halo clan.
Special thanks to YOUTUBE and Michael Andrews and Gary Jules and Tears for Fears who originally performed "Mad World," and all of the other online gamers who contributed.

WATCH THE VIDEO/AUDIO TRIBUTE MONTAGE PRODUCED BY THE HUMAN ARMED FORCES HALO CLAN BELOW