Football welcome for healing Va. Tech (AP)

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First came the massacre on campus, leaving 33 dead and a nation horrified. Then came federal dogfighting charges against Michael Vick, Virginia Tech's favorite son. As Virginia Tech and the Blacksburg community try to put the disturbing offseason in the past, opening day of the football season can't come soon enough for this engineering school in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western Virginia.

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