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Wed 04 Apr 2007Bush and students unite in Virginia for 'day of sadness'President George Bush joined students at Virginia Tech university on "a day of sadness" yesterday as police identified the gunman responsible for the worst mass killing in US history as a 23-year-old Korean-born student, reports Denis Staunton in Blacksburg, Virginia.As Mr Bush addressed a memorial convocation in the university basketball hall, thousands of students, dressed in the college colours of burgundy and orange, watched on a giant screen in a nearby football stadium.