Matt La Porte: In Memoriam

by Kaitlin | April 17, 2007 at 09:35 am

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The following is from a Facebook group honouring Matt's memory:

This is to remember
Matt La Porte. He was brave and a good guy that did not deserve this.He
risked his own life in order to try to save everyone else's. Everyone
will miss him. Whether you have talked ot him or not, you can feel the
pain. Matt La Porte was from Dumont, N.J., a sophomore. He had been an
Air Force cadet at Virginia Tech. La Porte graduated third in his class
and was also drum major for the school's drum and bugle corps during
his senior year.

Matt was also memorialized in a local newspaper, which quoted a message he wrote in the yearbook for the Military Academy he attended before going to Virginia Tech:

La Porte thanked his parents, Barbara and Joe La Porte of
Dumont, N.J., for sending him to the academy.

"Mom, I'm sorry I ever disappointed you," La
Porte wrote. "Dad, I hope that I've become a man
in your eyes and that whatever I do in life, you are proud
of me."