Posted on 04/17/2009 9:13:15 AM PDT by HotLead61
You may already realize this, but he must have thought you were referring to the date that Columbine actually happened?
Impossible to have a celebration and ignore the events of the day, so one of the guests played and sang Amazing Grace - very moving.
RIP the innocent victims of Columbine.
I just remember walking out of a seminar into the hotel lobby, and seeing it on the tv screen there...within two minutes there was a large crowd of watching and waiting for word as to what was actually happening. It was surreal standing next to a Mossad agent and a Brit counter terrorism expert and just listening to their running commentary.
Rachel lives!
Columbine Memorial Ping.
The posting credit goes to ‘HotLead61’. :-)
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Thanks, wkwe, you’re too kind.
I just hope I’ve got half the guts that Rachel Scott and her Dad have shown.
So say we all...
BTTT
And they HAD to?
It seems like Georgetown is the sellout!
Take God out of the classroom, and replace the patriot's gun with the abortionist's scalpel, and it's no wonder we continue to see more events like the Columbine shooting.
I had not seen this before. What a powerful message this man has. Thank you for posting it.
VirginiaMom
10 years already?
Man I was in High School when it happened (11th grade)
Amazing, isn’t it? I just saw on Huckabee (Fox News) an interview with one of the students who was actually well-acquainted with the 2 gunners, and who was at the school that day. That “kid” (Brooks Brown) certainly doesn’t look like a high-schooler anymore.
* BOOKS
* APRIL 18, 2009
A Nightmare Re-Examined
Debunking myths and finding the real story behind a school massacre
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were not the first young men to walk into an American high school on a mission of terror and murder, but their rampage 10 years ago was such that the school’s name alone still evokes harrowing memories. At the time, the Columbine massacre was the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history; 12 students and a teacher were killed, and Harris and Klebold committed suicide. It remains the bloodiest attack at any high school — and almost certainly is beset with more misconceptions than any other shooting, too.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124001474857430973.html
Columbine transformed police tactics; cops now trained to bring down the shooter right away
P. SOLOMON BANDA | Associated Press Writer
12:30 PM EDT, April 18, 2009
GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) The first officers on the scene had never trained for what they found at Columbine High School: No hostages. No demands. Just killing.
In the hours that followed, the nation watched in horror as the standard police procedure for dealing with shooting rampages in the U.S. proved tragically, heartbreakingly flawed on April 20, 1999.
Two officers exchanged fire with one of the teenage gunmen just outside the school door, then stopped as they had been trained to do to wait for a SWAT team. During the 45 minutes it took for the SWAT team to assemble and go in, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot 10 of the 13 people they killed that day.
The killers committed suicide around the time the makeshift SWAT team finally entered. But the SWAT officers took several hours more to secure the place, moving methodically from room by room. One of the wounded, teacher Dave Sanders, slowly bled to death.
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http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-columbine-active-shooter,0,3891340.story
I bought and till have that book that Darrell Scott and his ex-wife (Rachael Scott’s parents) wrote called Rachael’s Tears. It was a pretty good book for someone who doesn’t write books. Whenever I think of Columbine I think of Cassie Bernall and the stories about herbeing ased if she believed in God or not before they shot her (some say this did not happen - others say it did).
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