Thousands of Virginia Tech graduates struggled to balance joy with grief at ceremonies held less than a month after a student gunman’s rampage devastated the university campus.

Victims of the shooting rampage at Virginia Tech college in the United States were “graduating” alongside their classmates tonight.

As experts pored over Cho Seung Hui's twisted writings and his videotaped rant today, parents and officials urged people to instead focus on the victims of the deadliest rampage by a lone gunman in modern US history.