Seems hard to believe that it was ten years ago when the massacre took place at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Friends and family members of the victims will gather later today for a remembrance service. The two little scumbags who caused the massacre don’t deserve to be mentioned, but here are the names of the people who are no longer with us because of this event:
- Cassie Bernall
- Steve Curnow
- Corey DePooter
- Kelly Fleming
- Matt Kechter
- Daniel Mauser
- Daniel Rohrbough
- Dave Sanders
- Rachel Scott
- Isaiah Shoels
- John Tomlin
- Lauren Townsend
- Kyle Velasquez
For additional information on each of the victims, click here. I remember bits and pieces of the whole event – namely sitting at home with my Dad and watching the entire thing unfold on television while thinking that the high school looked remarkably similar to my own high school. There is a scene that is somewhat famous now of a kid hanging out of a window and falling out of the window to escape the shooters – I remember watching that live on television.
I also remember going to school the next day and everyone having a creepy, eerie feeling. Most of the students wanted their classroom doors closed and our teachers must have been instructed to be prepared to discuss the entire event with us because the teaching staff did an excellent job of discussing what happened.
And, in a little known piece of trivia, my high school had a copycat event take place the very next day. No one knows about this because not many people were told about it. I was privy to certain pieces of information because back then I was President of the Student Council. The Principal called me into the office at some point during the day to let me know that a student came to school that morning wearing the whole black trench coat get-up that the killers at Columbine wore and he was diverted to a private room in the high school and searched. He had knives on him. The kid was expelled within a week.
Columbine was a senseless act of destruction. Here’s hoping that Americans don’t have to deal with anything like that again.
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