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in 1999
students eric harris
and dylan klebold would embark on a
massacre that would make history
you were getting shot all around me
and the name of one colorado high school
synonymous with tragedy
children were running from the school at
breakneck speeds and i knew that the
world had changed
as the clock ticked
the body count rose they would pop
underneath a table they would say
something like peek-a-boo and they would
shoot someone
and with it the question why had these
two young men waged war on their
classmates and teachers
a bullet entered the side of my backpack
spun around and actually shot me in the
back and committed the world's most
notorious
killing spree what caused them to have
so much hatred they were willing to walk
in and kill as many people as possible
[Music]
[Applause]
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[Applause]
[Music]
in 1999
the area of columbine on the outskirts
of denver colorado
had been the epitome of
ordinary it's a suburban area
it's pretty quiet not a lot of crime
it's overwhelmingly white middle class
which is to say a very homogeneous place
but one spring day in 1999 would bring
the unremarkable neighborhood
worldwide notoriety
you know april 20th of 99 was it was a
typical day
i was eager to
get my grades bumped up because i was i
was 15 at the time so getting a driver's
permit was definitely on the horizon
morning definitely was just a regular
day
starting my shift
i was an emergency response specialist i
just took
regular phone calls to the sheriff's
office as well as a 911 phone calls
normal day we had ran a couple
you know basic calls
medical calls
it was just like any other day i went
off to work
i was leaving that day for a conference
in another part of our state
tom's fifteen-year-old son made his way
to columbine high school
[Music]
daniel was um
very shy kid
very shy very reserved very sweet
a very lovable kid
he was someone who even as a teenager
was not ashamed to give his mom
a big hug
for fellow students 16 year old craig
scott and his 17 year old sister rachel
the morning had not started harmoniously
my sister was in the car she was honking
her horn
because i was making us late
and i had to have my hair just perfect
and
we got into the car together
and she was kind of get on on to me
about being late
and we got into an argument
this is the road that rachel and i were
on together to go to school
and rachel would pull into
here to drop me off
she was just asking me not to make us
late all the time and
and so we were kind of back and forth in
an argument
and we pulled up to this school
and i got out of the car and i turned
and i looked at her and i slammed the
car door shut
and i walked into school i had no idea
that'd be the last time that i'd see
rachel alive
[Music]
around 11 19 am columbine school
west entrance
sean graves and his friends world was
about to change forever
for lunch there was three of us that day
that chose not to eat
dan robaugh lance kirkland and myself we
stepped out the side door
like we typically would we'd usually
grab a soda at the vending machines
right there and we just jet up and take
the path off
only that morning
things were a little different
we were looking up at the top of the
dirt hill
and we saw two two guys that were
wearing all black they're black trench
coats and with them they were carrying a
couple of black duffel bags
we witnessed them loading weapons
[Music]
that we just assumed were were toys and
that's when
it started
they showered us with with rounds and
dan
and lance both went down
one floor above
in the library
craig and his friend matt were sitting
revising
you know we we thought that
we were hearing uh
fireworks
we saw students running away from the
school they were trekking through
the soccer
field you know we thought that you know
as a senior prank it's about that time
for the
uh the end of the year for for some
silly prank to happen it was a tradition
but this was no prank
a nightmare that would shock the world
had just begun
[Music]
at approximately 11 19 am on the 20th of
april 1999
a deadly killing spree had begun at
columbine high school in colorado
outside the school cafeteria
fifteen-year-old student sean graves and
his friends dan and lance
were being fired on by two teenagers
dressed in black trench coats
my
body was completely
behind a concrete wall so i was
protected
the only thing on me that was sticking
past that was my backpack
a bullet entered the side of my backpack
spun around and actually shot me in the
back and shot out my right hip
and at that moment
i lost my legs completely i was
paralyzed from the waist down
[Music]
immediately what sean had originally
thought was a prank
was far from it
i found myself laying halfway in the
school and halfway out
and at that moment i knew that my worst
nightmare had come true
months possibly years before the
shooting actually took place i had a
reoccurring nightmare of somebody in my
family or even myself
being paralyzed
it didn't make any sense then
but the second i looked back at my legs
i realized that that dream had come true
and i was the one that was going to be
paralyzed
shawn lay in the doorway of the
cafeteria
and for hundreds of students inside
the reality of what was happening was
beginning to sink in
all i remember from that moment was just
the fear in their eyes looking at me and
i'm sure i had fear looking back
and that's when the fire alarm went off
and the cafeteria started to evacuate
number one yeah this is sheridan mike
high school we have shots being fired
[Applause]
[Applause]
[Music]
over the prior year the two mystery
shooters had made several extraordinary
videos
both spoof and sirius that were
chillingly similar to the spree to come
the violent merciless attacks played out
in the videos had now become a reality
the two shooters walked down
uh to try and finish off everyone and i
watched
um one of the shooters
shoot lance in the face
at jefferson county sheriff's department
detective kate batten was just returning
from an early lunch
i asked what was going on they said that
there was a shooting at columbine high
school
so at that point i started driving
towards columbine
and
that's when it became surreal
because the dispatcher was talking about
snipers on the roof they were talking
about bombs exploding
and i'm i'm just
astounded that this is information
that's being relayed in suburban
littleton
my secretary ran in the door was shut
and she said there's been a report of
shootings or gunfire and bomb six by
night and i'm thinking what are you
talking about
i came out of my office and i ran down
here
and as i looked down the corridor i saw
a gunman
coming towards me
with the shotgun
when i was staring down and i made
contact it seemed like the size of a
cannon
all i kept thinking is what it was going
to feel like
to be shot
you know i thought of my family was i
going to die quickly
each time a bullet was fired from the
gun then glass would chatter behind me i
hear bullets exploding
in that area
and what really probably saved my life
is girls coming out of the gymnasium in
this crossing hall they were coming into
the crossfire and i wanted to make sure
that they were not hit by the gunman's
gunfire
i ran down to this hallway and i was
able to get the girls into the gymnasium
area
an emergency
well we also got a friend a call from my
daughter saying he's chasing us with a
gun and he hung up the phone and you
could hear the screaming
in the hallways
[Music]
six weeks earlier
march the 16th 1999
in the mountains south of columbine
the two shooters recorded another video
this time the weapons were real
slug imagine that in someone's brain
both were students at columbine high
school just weeks away from graduating
entry exit
17 year old dylan klebold
and 18 year old eric harris
harris was a young man that was in
advanced classes um
you know he had dreams of going to the
military he was going to he applied or
to enlist in the marines
cleveland was a kid who a few weeks
prior had visited one of the state
universities in arizona so his plan was
to go to college claibot was at prom
three nights prior
now both harris and klebold seemed
intent on the destruction of the school
and everyone in it
by 11 27 am
the two shooters were in an area near
the library
where craig scott and numerous fellow
students were working
hearing the uh
the firecrackers we're thinking that
it's a prank we're laughing we're joking
about it
uh
and then that's when a uh
teacher ran into the room uh she ran out
over to the phone she got on the phone
to call the police
jefferson county 9-1-1 the phone rings
and um you know i had a caller on the
other end of the line who
stated that something was happening at
columbine high school
there was a student here with a gun shot
out of windows there was children in the
library
and she
wanted to
obviously you know protect them and take
care of them
heads under the table
she saw the shots happen she knew this
was serious she knew this was real okay
we've got help on the way man
okay okay oh god stay in the lineup
i got underneath the table with
my buddy matt
and then my friend isaiah he came and he
sat next to me
still lying paralyzed in the cafeteria
doorway
fifteen-year-old sean could do nothing
but listen
i can hear explosions going off upstairs
and i can hear people screaming and i
can hear gunshots just echoing
throughout the school and there's
just chaos everywhere i've got every
student in this library on the floor
we have paramedics we have fire and we
have police on route
we were just sitting down to launch
[Music]
and the tones went off for a reported
possible drive by shooting near
columbine high school
my partner and i jumped in to the medic
unit and
started heading towards columbine
as we pulled up several students running
by and one young gal had a bullet hole
in her i believe right calf we treated
her
after several minutes shooting and
throwing homemade bombs in the corridor
outside
harrison klebold now approached the
library entrance
where the teacher was under the desk on
the line to 9-1-1 dispatch
i remember trying to get her to close
the doors and lock them
to keep everyone in is there any way you
can block the door so no one can get in
i do i do not she's right outside that
door i'm afraid to go to the dress okay
it was trying to keep her calm so that i
could you know figure out what was going
on
[Music]
i'll rip off your goddamn head
dylan was a family friend of our kids
for a long time he
grew up here
sort of dylan was here a lot the kids
met each other in the first grade and
became best friends hey what's going on
dude this is dylan there were never
fights a lot of kids you have to send
home after a while because you know it
gets with boys it was great the three of
them got along great he was a nice
gentle young man
dylan klebold was born in colorado
and at the time of the shooting was
living in his parents designer home
in a desirable natural area just outside
the town
dylan's parents there were intellectuals
and artists at heart they had met at
ohio state university
in the art program
they didn't believe in spanking
um they didn't believe in guns they
didn't believe in war they were
pacifists
eric harris's background was also far
from underprivileged
eric's father was ex-military was a
decorated
air force test pilot
it required them to bounce around a bit
from city to city
as his father would get transferred but
lived in normal
middle class neighborhoods not living in
the inner city
and subject to gangs or drugs or
violence
it did
affect eric however always having to
move to another school
make new friends again
that was tough for him
[Music]
eric harris and dylan klebold were both
deeply into computers
and both complained they were victims of
bullying by sporty students known as
jocks
[Applause]
after settling in the columbine area
harris became friends with klebold and
as such also hung out with dylan's
friend brooks brown
but it would not always be a smooth
relationship
he had thrown a snowball at brooks's car
and cracked the windshield and a kid
came up and said here's eric's backpack
i took it while he was throwing
snowballs so i'm thinking what's this
i'm going to take the backpack back so
we drove down in the car and i
rolled down the window and i said to
eric
um i've got your backpack meet me at
your mom's house and we rolled back up
the window well he started banging on
the window crazy saying give me my
backpack he was frantic
that was the first time i saw that anger
and it was very unusual it was it was
quick and it was fast and it was
unrelenting i will freaking kill you i'm
gonna pull out a goddamn shotgun
the 20th of april 1999
11 29 a.m
columbine high school western side
eric harris and dylan klebold entered
the library where four staff members and
52 students were hiding
as soon as they came in they were
shooting off their guns they began to
yell at students they were making some
mocking comments
nobody whatever their race sex or social
status would be safe from the killing
spree
the first person that they killed was
kyle velasquez
who didn't know to hide
he had a disability
and he likes simple things his family
said he liked
panda bears he liked coloring and they
became the bully
what would happen next in that library
would horrify the world
[Music]
throughout 1998 and early 99
columbine high school students
eric harris
and dylan klebold
had made a number of home videos themed
around violence
on april the 20th just weeks before they
were both due to graduate
fantasy became reality
at 11 29 am they entered the library
like his fellow students
sixteen-year-old craig scott was hiding
under a table with his friends matt and
isaiah
a lot of students were um were being
were being quiet some girls were crying
and some girls were begging for their
life
open at the 911 desk
i could hear
them speaking
as well as the children in the library
and i there was the definite sound of
gunshots
they actually fired out the windows at
the police officers and two of those
police officers or deputy sheriffs
fired back
they then walked over and they
started systematically shooting the kids
[Music]
they
treated it like it was a game
like they were having fun at one point
they would pop underneath a table they
would say something like peek-a-boo and
they would shoot someone
i think that they were enjoying
themselves through a good portion of the
shooting there was a lot of hooting and
hollering and
false bravado between the two of them
three would be shot dead and four
injured before harris and klebold worked
their way towards craig scott
they came over to where i was
and they saw isaiah
and isaiah was one of the very few
african american students in our school
and i believe
dylan called eric over and using a
racial slur we have an n-word over here
at one point he was kind of backing up
underneath the table
and then they were at one point he was
being
pulled out
and this is something that came up in my
memory later
i remember isaiah said i want to see my
mom
[Music]
they shot isaiah and then they turned
their gun towards matt and they shot
matt
[Music]
i had decided to
pretend to be dead
and not draw any attention to myself
and so i
um
i laid there and
i could hear their last breaths being
taken
five more students would lose their
lives leaving 10 dead and 12 injured in
the deadly library spree
before harrison klebold left the room at
11 36 a.m
and began wreaking further havoc around
the school
emergency
yes we do
you guys
lost the paramedics we have paramedics
we have fire and we have police on route
swat sniper sean duggan was one of
several law enforcement officers with
children at the school
i got a page and it said
all swat respond to a critical incident
so i have all my gear and i'm trying to
call my daughter and she's not answering
her page and she was a senior in the
school that day so i'm a little frantic
that
she's not responding
hundreds of emergency personnel were
flocking to the school
there was ambulances and fire trucks and
police cars and sheriff's cars
parked everywhere and children were
running from the school at breakneck
speeds as fast as they could
i was running for my life
and
when i got behind the police car
i couldn't help but
be thinking about matt and isaiah
because they they were there was still
there was still a little bit of
breathing
and i felt
i felt a little
like a coward
oh
my god
i was over a table and people were
getting shot all around me
it was
overwhelming to see the emotion on these
kids faces and i knew that the world had
changed
and there's
so many people
oh my god
everybody was calling 9-1-1 from inside
the school from outside the school so
the information that we were getting was
conflicting
as a sniper
you ask
what your rules of engagement are is
this a deadly force situation and i was
told if any any high school age kids
come out in black trench coast with
weapons they were to be shot
[Music]
amongst the confusion the name of one
suspect began to trickle
brooke brown as out student okay giving
me good suspect information i think this
is the guy okay what do you got for me
okay last name is karen he was friends
with him approximately two years ago
because he started acting really strange
okay
it would be revealed that eric harris's
behavior had already been seriously
worrying some people
along the way eric did let out a
different lot of signs he had in his uh
his website talking about how we wanted
to kill all sorts of people hundreds of
people wanted to kill everybody in
denver um and in particular brooks brown
his former friend
[Music]
disputes like the incident with the
broken windshield had put brown on
harris's hit list
brooks was supposed to pick eric up for
school
and brooks was terrible with being on
time and burke slept in and didn't pick
him up and that was it
that was it and i said to brooks can you
smooth it over and brooke said it
doesn't work that way with eric
and so that was the indication eric
doesn't forgive he was an injustice
collector
dylan who was still friends with and had
been lifelong friends with uh
brooks
ward brooks uh to go to the website and
see what was going on
he was
posting threats about uh wanting to kill
brooks and that's the thing we took to
the police
and from when he started making the
death threats he wasn't allowed in our
house anymore we knew that eric was
dangerous we did not know dylan when we
turned them into the police eric was
into pipe bombs and he was talking about
it on his website
it was actually a search warrant drawn
up um but then was never taken before a
judge to search eric's house
um that was never followed up on because
there was another series of murders in
the town where the person investigating
sort of went off that case for a while
and never picked it up again
yes but harrison klebold's plan involved
something much worse than homemade pipe
bomb grenades
as shawn graves still paralyzed and
bleeding half inside the cafeteria door
was about to experience i started
hearing the gunshots getting closer and
that's when i realized that they were
coming down the stairs in the cafeteria
they just kept getting closer and closer
and closer
and i started hearing
explosions
but every time there was a shot and then
one of those larger
booms went off i flinched
harris and klebold's killing spree had
not just been planned as a shooting
before they had opened fire that morning
they had placed two large explosive
devices in the canteen
they had been timed to explode at 11 17
am
and the two students had planned to wait
outside to pick off any survivors
fleeing the scene
eric harris had even gone so far as to
study how many people were in the
cafeteria at any given time during the
lunch hour so he set those bombs to go
off when he would have the mass casualty
approximately 450 is what he was
estimating and we had 455 kids down
there
the bomb's timers had not worked which
is why harris and klebold had begun
their killing spree with their guns
however they'd not given up on their
dream of blowing up the school
well i didn't know it at the time there
was actually a propane
canister bomb essentially that was no
more than five feet from where i was
laying and they were shooting at it
trying to get the bomb to go off
their new attempts to detonate the bombs
only succeeded in a relatively small
partial explosion and fire
but they were a sign of a highly planned
premeditated suicide mission
these two students did not just snap in
this case it was clear they began
talking about doing something like this
just about
a little over a year
before eric harris's first entry in his
journal in his notebook is april 10th
1998. the first words i read i think
kind of set the tone and it was i i hate
the effing world
you know he's not talking about hitting
jocks he's not talking about um you know
any kind of particular group later he
makes fun of just about everybody people
who drive too slow in the fast lane
people who say a cross instead of a
cross or you know mispronounced words
you know
any trivial thing you know there's
there's nothing too trivial for eric to
have contempt for you
dylan also had a lot of writings
and notes that he left
his centered arounds his emotions his
feelings
he clearly stated he was depressed he
clearly stated that
his his life was a mess
dylan's journal went on for two years
and the very first page he talks about
killing himself he had a miserable
perception of himself and often at
complete odds with reality
he was in my mind a classic adolescent
depressive or going through an
adolescent depressive episode when
confronted with some of his
inappropriate behavior he would get
extremely angry whereas when people
confronted eric with some of his earlier
misbehaviors
he would respond in a classic
psychopathic way he would tell you what
you wanted to hear promise never to do
it again and would be looking in the
eyes and deliberately telling you what
he thought you wanted to hear
harris had a personality disorder
that made him uh lacking in empathy for
the suffering of victims
made him very manipulative and crafty
you know he had a uncanny ability
to present himself any way he wanted so
he looked like a good guy to many people
but actually he didn't have a conscience
or what sigmund freud called a superego
brooks brown's mother experienced eric's
excuses when his father sent him around
to apologize for damaging her son's
windscreen
he looked at me and he said mrs brown
i'm sorry i didn't mean any harm and i
said look eric you can pull the wool
over everyone's eyes but you're not
going to do it over mine you come by
this house you threaten my kid you do
damage i'm going to call the police so
you stay away from our house and stay
away from me
and he said are you calling me a liar
and i said yes i am
and don't come around the house again
and he got bright red i mean he was so
angry at me and he left the house
together eric harris and dylan klebold
had become a deadly partnership
and the two killers were now wreaking
havoc not only inside the school but
outside too
as parents feared for the fate of their
children
[Music]
about the time i got to my sniper
position my phone rang and it was my
daughter and i said are you okay she's
yeah i'm home and i said okay
i have to go i love you and we hung up
many parents including daniel mauser's
father
learned of the unfolding events through
the media there in on the television was
news coverage
it looked
terrible
but
i said to myself well if there's
something going
wrong at the school
certainly my son wouldn't be involved
he was not somebody who'd be
in trouble or
being targeted by somebody
when i got home
my wife had a very concerned look on her
face
why wasn't he calling us
[Music]
so i agreed to go to another school
where a number of the students were
being taken in school buses after they
escaped
and as i was driving i was listening to
the news coverage
and at one point i heard them mention
that they were taking some students
to the hospital and one of the ones they
mentioned was a 15 year old boy
who was shot
so of course the first thing i thought
was 15 years old that's how daniel is
what if that's daniel could that be my
son
at the nearby elementary school many
parents would be reunited with their
traumatized kids
i saw parents walking out with children
and i just said to myself
i want to be one of them i want to get
this over with i want to be one of those
people
[Music]
by 1202 pm columbine high school
cafeteria exit
student sean graves bleeding profusely
had passed out
meanwhile two medic units approached his
location
i
drove around the south side as we're
pulling into the parking lot through all
the cars
see several students hiding behind cars
several deputies with their weapons
strained on the building
i couldn't figure out what woke me up
but when i did snap back to it there was
some commotion behind me and as i
overlooked my shoulder that there was an
ambulance sitting right behind me
i saw two paramedics
one jumped out of the driver's seat and
the other from the back of the ambulance
and they grabbed me picked me up by my
shirt my belt and they were dragging me
out and i remember just looking down to
see my arms and my legs dangling
and that's when the shooters realized
that somebody was down there helping us
and i could see the concrete just poofs
of white dust they were they were
opening fire on us they were trying to
kill us again
holed up amongst the dead and injured in
the library eric harris and dylan
klebold now had their weapons trained on
the paramedics and casualties below
[Music]
by 1202 pm on the 20th of april 1999
eric harris and dylan klebold had been
running amok in columbine high school
for more than 40 minutes
leaving a trail of dead and injured in
their wake
then as fire department paramedics moved
in to assist casualties
like shawn graves and his friends
harris and klebold began firing on the
kids and rescuers
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i found medic 13's group were struggling
to get sean graves loaded up into the
medic unit so i came up in the middle of
him and one had the head the other had
the feet and we stepped into the
ambulance they threw me in first
saw another young man laying by the
fence and then he turned his head and
made eye contact with me and said help
me
i scooped up and dumped the young man
literally into the back of the ambulance
so that they could get out of the
gunfire
i just remember hearing that the sounds
of
bullets hitting the top of the ambulance
just the metal tinging
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and that's uh i'll take that away from
all of that as being a sound that i'll
never forget
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it would be among the last acts of
harrison klebold's killing spree
they were shooting at the cops they were
taking pot shots
and police were firing back
i think they realized
the only escape
was going to be into the long arm of the
law
and prosecution and jail and prison and
i think there was a thought of
let's end this the way we want it to end
let's control our own destiny
at around 1208 pm eric harris and dylan
klebold
took their own lives
but for the children of columbine high
school and their parents the nightmare
was far from over
kids would leave columbine and they
would be placed on a bus and reunified
with their parents
and as the night went on
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buses were not arriving and there were
still parents left
after nothing happening for a while they
informed us that
there was one last school bus that was
coming
one last school bus with
students but for some desperate parents
clinging on to the hope that their
children would return
there was to be no happy ending
later on
the authorities
confirmed to us that they made a
terrible mistake
there was no last school bus
at the
the end of the day
we had 13 innocent people killed which
were 12 students and and one teacher
in addition harrison claibol also died
by apparent suicide in the library so we
knew we had 15
fatalities most of the fatalities in the
library
for craig scott who had suffered the
trauma of having his friends murdered
beside him in the library
there was worse to come
when he learned of the fate of his
sister
rachel was the first one that was killed
and she had been killed right outside
the school library
and i realized that when i ran out of
the school i had ran right by rachel
and
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my son was one of the the last that was
shot he was next to last who was shot
and from the reports that we have
eric harris
looked at daniel and insulted him i
believe it was he called him four eyes
because he wore glasses
and he fired a shot that went into
daniel's hand
daniel
fought back
he took the chair that was there and he
pushed it
towards eric harris
and for that he paid with his life
eric harris fired one more time
and shot him in the face
killed him
so what caused these two students both
just weeks away from graduating to have
such disdain for human life
these two kids did not come out of their
mother's womb hating
what happened from the time they were
born to the time that they carried out
this horrific act
one thing that is erroneous is to talk
about
why
they did this implying that it was for
the same reasons they were two basically
different guys in my
colloquialisms
i would say eric harris was filled with
anger with rage he wanted to hurt other
people
and didn't care if he died
dylan on the other hand i believe was
hurting inside
and at various times wanted to die
because he felt so bad he just saw no
reason to keep on living
people who study these called them dyads
and there's a long history of bonnie and
clyde leopold and loeb and very often
most often you have a stronger person a
weaker person in this case
dylan had incredibly low self-esteem
needed somebody to validate him make him
feel good about himself
some consider bullying at the school to
be the primary factor
once you hate the bullies and no one
does anything to defend you
you hate the people in the class that
don't say anything you hate the teacher
that doesn't say anything you hate the
counselors that allow it to happen they
in in essence end up hating the school
not just the bullies they hate the
school and they want to kill the school
i think that they didn't see
that they had a lot going for them
they became isolated and that isolation
and then exposure to
a lot of negative
influences in their life
that they chose to focus on
i think really took them towards a
darker and darker place
harris was the dominant person who
inspired
the columbine massacre
and i think clebo went along to get
along it was that chemistry that created
this insane circumstance where they were
able to kill lots of people uh with
moral impunity
for the columbine teachers
students
and parents
life would never be the same again
i was paralyzed from the waist down
i spent
um
months in the hospital
they didn't foresee me ever walking
again
and i i was angry i was very angry about
that but at the same time i'm i'm
extremely stubborn
so
i didn't let that be the end of it i
made a goal
for myself to walk across the stage at
graduation i wanted to be able to
graduate knowing that
i didn't let those two
control my life and then let them ruin
my life
and i've actually been
walking ever since
for 9-1-1 dispatcher rene napoli who
listened as 10 children were murdered in
the library
the enormity of what she'd heard soon
hit home my first day off
i went to pick up my children from high
school
and i
had a
had a really hard time picking up my own
children from high school
so much so that my son had to drive home
and that's when it really hit me
is that i'm i'm able to pick up my
children from high school and somebody
else is not able to do that
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the words that we have here were written
by my wife she did a great job of
summing up daniel's life and what this
means to us to have
to have this here
to honor him
wow
it's like they did it for daniel
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