could forget those horrifying images on your television screen? The confusion, the terror, the wondering?
Was anyone alive? Were bombs set off? Who had they, whoever "they" were, killed? What's going on?
The toll of the dead was 13 that day. Toll of injured, 24. That did not include the instigators themselves.
Who knew that only two were involved in this? Who were they? What could possibly lead them to such
terror, such destruction?
The two responsible were Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris. Quite unbelievable, if you knew them...
Dylan Klebold was a normal kid, Cub Scout, involved in Drama productions at Columbine High School, and the school paper. He was always helpful and involved with both, and quite passionate about them. Until his
senior year. Interestingly, his date for the Senior Prom helped purchase the guns used in the massacre...
Eric Harris was another typical kid, was in the same group as Dylan, but had a darker side. When his
girlfriend from the Homecoming dance broke up with him, he staged a "fake suicide", laying on the ground
with fake blood applied to his head and spread over the ground surrounding him...
Both of them worked at Blackjack Pizza, causing quite a bit of trouble while they did. They would
occasionally set off fireworks in the back of the building, set booby-traps with explosives in the fence
surrounding the establishment, and once set fire to a kitchen sink...
At Blackjack Pizza, they purchased another weapon from an associate of an employee and together made
the video "Rampart Range", with them firing the weapons at various targets...
To the school, they were just soon-to-be seniors, happy to be graduating, as those who thought so
believed. For over a year they had planned this shooting, and more, through their various drawings, diaries
and videos.
On April 20, 1999, their plans went into action.
On October 10, 2009, Susan Klebold, mother of one of the killers, released a statement. She states:
"For the rest of my life, I will be haunted by the horror and anguish Dylan caused. I cannot look at a child
in a grocery store or on the street without thinking about how my son's schoolmates spent the last
moments of their lives. Dylan changed everything I believed about myself, about God, about family and
about love." She goes on, about that morning, "I was getting dressed for work when I heard Dylan bound
down the stairs and open the front door. Wondering why he was in such a hurry when he could have
slept in for another 20 minutes, I poked my head out of the bedroom. 'Dyl'... All he said was 'Bye'...
his voice sounded sharp. I figured he was mad because he had to get up early to give someone a lift
to class. I had no idea that I had just heard his voice for the last time".
I could not imagine being the mother of someone that was responsible for this kind of massacre. Could
you? Can you imagine this mother's sorrow, not only for her son, but for his victims? Was it the parent's
fault, or society at large? What do you think?
Sources:
"For the rest of my life, I will be haunted by the horror and anguish Dylan caused," Susan Klebold wrote. "I cannot look at a child in a grocery store or on the street without thinking about how my son's schoolmates spent the last moments of their lives. Dylan changed everything I believed about myself, about God, about family and about love."
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/10/10/2009-10-10_columbine_killer_dylan_klebold_s_mom_no_inkling_son_suicidal_for_the_rest_of_my_.html#ixzz0TvkG8cLH
"For the rest of my life, I will be haunted by the horror and anguish Dylan caused," Susan Klebold wrote. "I cannot look at a child in a grocery store or on the street without thinking about how my son's schoolmates spent the last moments of their lives. Dylan changed everything I believed about myself, about God, about family and about love."
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/10/10/2009-10-10_columbine_killer_dylan_klebold_s_mom_no_inkling_son_suicidal_for_the_rest_of_my_.html#ixzz0TvkG8cLH
"For the rest of my life, I will be haunted by the horror and anguish Dylan caused," Susan Klebold wrote. "I cannot look at a child in a grocery store or on the street without thinking about how my son's schoolmates spent the last moments of their lives. Dylan changed everything I believed about myself, about God, about family and about love."
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/10/10/2009-10-10_columbine_killer_dylan_klebold_s_mom_no_inkling_son_suicidal_for_the_rest_of_my_.html#ixzz0TvkG8cLH
"For the rest of my life, I will be haunted by the horror and anguish Dylan caused," Susan Klebold wrote. "I cannot look at a child in a grocery store or on the street without thinking about how my son's schoolmates spent the last moments of their lives. Dylan changed everything I believed about myself, about God, about family and about love."
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/10/10/2009-10-10_columbine_killer_dylan_klebold_s_mom_no_inkling_son_suicidal_for_the_rest_of_my_.html#ixzz0TvkG8cLH
"For the rest of my life, I will be haunted by the horror and anguish Dylan caused," Susan Klebold wrote. "I cannot look at a child in a grocery store or on the street without thinking about how my son's schoolmates spent the last moments of their lives. Dylan changed everything I believed about myself, about God, about family and about love."
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/10/10/2009-10-10_columbine_killer_dylan_klebold_s_mom_no_inkling_son_suicidal_for_the_rest_of_my_.html#ixzz0TvkG8cLH
"For the rest of my life, I will be haunted by the horror and anguish Dylan caused," Susan Klebold wrote. "I cannot look at a child in a grocery store or on the street without thinking about how my son's schoolmates spent the last moments of their lives. Dylan changed everything I believed about myself, about God, about family and about love."
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/10/10/2009-10-10_columbine_killer_dylan_klebold_s_mom_no_inkling_son_suicidal_for_the_rest_of_my_.html#ixzz0TvkG8cLH
