History of Violence: Columbine, Ten Years Later »
Posted By JamesMarcus 9 months, 3 weeks ago in NewsTen years ago today, two teenagers initiated a bloodbath at their local high school--and made the word Columbine synonymous with arbitrary, agonizing violence. At the time, reporters and television crews swarmed the small town of Littleton, Colorado, located not far from Denver. The slaughter and its immediate aftermath became one of those round-the-clock media spectacles, from which a disbelieving nation could hardly avert its eyes. And while the media--and the audience--eventually moved on, Columbine has never lost its resonance. It is evoked almost every time another demented gunman opens fire: think of the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre, or of the spate of recent shootings that have killed 57 Americans over the last few weeks.
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lvrofwolves9 months, 3 weeks ago
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so was my Son, and that's exactly what he said.
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Also the 'fashion' was trench coats, and he wore a very nice one, the next day the principal banned them.
As a parent, I remember feeling horrified and it changed the feeling of sending your kids off to school.
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CRYMTYPHON9 months, 3 weeks ago
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'Columbine' is a flower; and the heroine of many old love stories, posed with harlequin and Leander.
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One of my favorite poems:
There are windfalls of dreams,
There's a wolf in the stars;
And life is a nymph who will never be mine;
With lilly, germander, and sops of wine;
With sweet briar, and bonfire,
And Columbine.
Let the dead be remembered, let killers be forgot,
- and let the name columbine bring to mind a
summer flower.
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