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Original subtitles

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]

[Music]

[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

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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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