Columbine: 10 Years Later

A couple of good stories regarding Columbine can be read here and here.  The second link from CNN does a good job in detailing how quickly myth became fact in the story. Also, ESPN has an excerpt from a upcoming book from Patrick Ireland, Columbine's 'Boy in the Window'.  It might might be of interest to those of you that struggle with forgiveness (or those of you who write about it).
For the first time, on that same Saturday, I started telling my parents — again, haltingly and choppily — about the day of the shootings. I told them, "Bombs were exploding all over the place. Frightening. I could not believe it was true."

Then Mom, who took handwritten notes on our exchanges that week, told me "the two boys" who did it were dead.

"Please forgive them," I said. "Forgive them."

I have no idea where those words came from. I was having trouble putting complete sentences together, and I came up with that: "Forgive them."

My mother was flabbergasted. She knew I probably overheard her calling Klebold and Eric Harris "bastards" earlier that week. She turned her head away and cried for a few seconds. She had mixed feelings about it because of how she felt about Klebold's and Harris' actions, but she had been praying that if I recovered, I wouldn't be consumed by bitterness. So when I said that, she knew I probably could overcome those psychological obstacles. But when she composed herself, she asked me, "Why should I forgive them?"

I said, "They did not mean to do it. They were confused. They were confused."


 
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