Posted on 10/10/2009 4:18:47 PM PDT by real saxophonist
Dylan Klebold's mom speaks in "O" magazine
"No inkling" of plans for Columbine massacre
By The Denver Post
Posted: 10/10/2009
Susan Klebold wrote an essay in the November issue of O magazine. (Denver Post file photo )An essay by the mother of Columbine killer Dylan Klebold says she had "no inkling" of her son's inner turmoil, and her examination of his journals has prompted her to learn about suicide in an effort to understand the school shooting.
The essay by Susan Klebold, which appears in the November issue of O, The Oprah Magazine, explores her son's role in the 1999 massacre where he and co-conspirator Eric Harris killed 12 students and a teacher and left two dozen wounded before killing themselves.
Neither family has spoken at length in the aftermath of what at the time marked the most deadly school shooting in U.S. history. Pending litigation contributed to the silence for several years, but even with the lawsuits resolved, repeated requests for interviews have been turned down.
In a news release, Oprah Winfrey also noted that Susan Klebold had declined interview requests but then, several months ago, agreed to write about her personal experience. The magazine released a few advance excerpts.
"From the writings Dylan left behind, criminal psychologists have concluded that he was depressed and suicidal," Susan Klebold wrote in one passage. "When I first saw copied pages of these writings, they broke my heart. I'd had no inkling of the battle Dylan was waging in his mind."
She added: "Dylan's participation in the massacre was impossible for me to accept until I began to connect it to his own death. Once I saw his journals, it was clear to me that Dylan entered the school with the intention of dying there. And so in order to understand what he might have been thinking, I started to learn all I could about suicide."
Susan Klebold received no payment for the essay, said a magazine spokesperson, but hoped to "raise suicide awareness and to generate support for organizations such as The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the American Association of Suicidology."
A spokesperson for the Klebolds' attorney, Gary Lozow, would not field questions and said that the Klebold family would have no further comment.
The magazine hits newsstands on Tuesday.
In another passage, Susan Klebold recounted the early morning before the violence began:
"Early on April 20, 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 another 20 minutes, I poked my head out of the bedroom. 'Dyl?' All he said was 'Bye.' The front door slammed, and his car sped down the driveway. His voice had sounded sharp. I figured he was mad because he'd 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."
Another excerpt describes her struggle to come to grips with the tragedy.
"For the rest of my life, I will be haunted by the horror and anguish Dylan caused," she 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."
Sounds like a great sister.
You are blessed?
If you in any way wittingly or unwittingly encourage other parents to contribute to
REACTIVE ATTACHMENT DISORDER . . .
MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOU FOR SUCH LUNACY.
ALL CAPS = NARCISSIST
Nonsense = Idiot
“reasonably well” = Equivocation
You don’t know anything except what you think you have witnessed. You have already had to back off the absolutes you boldly posted up thread.
I would advise you if you ever need an armorer find one who has actually owned and repaired a gun, not just seen and read about them.
It is safer that way.
Nice dodge.
What a cop-out.
You are so screwed up you can’t answer a single post with a single post. You often require two.
A sure sign of a lack of clear thinking.
Sometimes I have to remind myself that I am!
We have one of those love/hate relationships. Since losing our dear mother two years ago, we have grown closer. I try to keep our relationship “light”. I try to center it on things related to my young children. It’s a safe topic.
I mean what I wrote about how she would help me. She would do the right thing for me, as I would for her. We just know what is right, and we do it.
I handle my own guns quite adequately, thank you. Pretty decent shot, too.
Your assumpations are grossly flawed.
And you still are dodging my questions. What cheek.
You cannot even keep up ya pinhead.
Now go spend ten minutes responding to this post with several stupid posts.
I could go to DU and find sharper people to discuss this with than you.
CONGRATS.
I’ve persistently admired your wisdom and maturity as well as your perceptiveness and discernment.
You could pray and ask God how to deepen the relationship in redemptive ways. Pity to have a sis and not be as close as other priorities would allow.
Thanks for your sharing.
It’s fascinating on these threads . . . the folks who are so defensive and rationalizing about poor to atrocious parenting habits.
Bloomin idiots from the git go. And then trying to justify it! Sheesh.
Love it.
Thanks for continuing to display the qualities that must have made you a wonderful parent! /sar
I hope you’re saving up money for therapy.
I suspect my IQ’s higher than yours.
You have proven my points nicely.
“Narcissist Idiot” would be a great new handle for you as you wear the label proudly.
Or maybe, Barrack Gore ........ Al Obama?
They all fit!
I suspect you are off your meds...
Thanks for the laughs.
Elderberry or Oil of Oregano?
Actually, I’m not off either one of them.
LOL.
LOL!
Another twoofer post!
One touting your IQ no less!
You have lost boy now go lick your wounds because you cannot call your kids like I can.
I shall plod and scream along doing all I can to discourage folks from allowing or contributing to
REACTIVE ATTACHMENT DISORDER
Defend such hideousness however you will. There’s a harvest coming for such a perspective and such a stance.
Careful!
He’ll answer each of your posts with several of his because his high IQ makes him think so clearly.
LOL!
I talk to my kids frequently.
You have no idea how many CHINESE students volunteer insisted that I loved them more than their blood parents did.
In that culture, that was an incredible assertion.
Quite an honor. I guess they knew some things about me you have no clue of.
If you’re that clueless about your own kids, I wonder how fruitful your calls are.
Damn, Eaker nailed it...
You are the Twofer man...
And weird doesn’t really cover it...
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