Global Gossip

Today is the tenth anniversary of the horrific shooting spree and subsequent deaths of those children and teacher, at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado.  This is 20 minutes from my home, and I know and knew students (now adults) that attended at that time.  I did not know any of the victims.  I will say if you lived in Denver, Colorado or the Denver Metropolitan Area that there was not one face, not one storefront, not one business, school, or vehicle that did not aptly express the treachery and sadness that ensued that day.

I was four months pregnant, on bed rest on that day.  I watched it unfold on the television like most others did as well.  I believe since I was pregnant and I had a 6 year old son at the time as well, that I deeply empathized and ached over what occurred.  However, I am humbled and unbelievably thankful that no one I knew was involved, but I felt then, and I feel now like I did know someone, one of them, all of them.  The faces on the parents out in the parking lots waiting to hear if their child was one of the dead or one of the missing was torture.  It was not moments, it was hours and hours and hours.

Today for those that lost someone, for those that waited out in the parking lot, for those that crouched behind library bookshelves and watched a teenage girl get shot in the head for refusing to denounce her God, for the boy who, already shot and bloody, threw himself out of a window on an upper floor, and for those that thankfully got their children back… today is a opened wound.  The entire city reflects it, there are reminders everywhere.

I wanted to extend my continuing, heartfelt condolences and my gratefulness for my own and to send peace and well wishes to those aforementioned and those that are remembering.

-Jaime Girard (BiologyBabe)

Below are photos and also the victims that dies, not including the two murderers; and not including the more than 20 that were severely injured and survived. I some of the photos are not showing, I apologize.

http://www.acolumbinesite.com

http://acolumbinesite.com/victim/memoriam.html the victims who died.
Injured victims by name…

+ Brian Anderson
+ Richard Castaldo
+ Jennifer Doyle
+ Stephen ‘Austin’ Eubanks
+ Nicholas ‘Nick’ Foss
+ Sean Graves
+ Makai Hall
+ Anne Marie Hochhalter
+ Patrick Ireland
+ Michael Johnson
+ Joyce Jankowski
+ Mark Kintgen
+ Lisa Kreutz
+ Lance Kirklin
+ Adam Kyler
+ Stephanie Munson
+ Patricia ‘Patti’ Nielson
+ Nicole Nowlen
+ Jeanna Park
+ Kacey Ruegsegger
+ Valeen Schnurr
+ Daniel Steepleton
+ Evan Todd
+ Mark Taylor