Remember Columbine today........

[NHAnn]

Hug your kids before school!

It's been 5 years

 

[Dan Murphy]

What a sad day for our youth, our children, our country. Hopefully we learn from each tragedy like these. God bless. Thanks, Ann.

 

[shep]

I seen Dan's thread too & was thinking that WACO was around this time wasn't it??
Will not be able to forget any of these tragic events since they fall so close to our Anniversary...

 

[Serena]

 

[chager]

I was there the week following as part of an outreach group. We went and helped at one of the churches that lost a couple kids. It was really hard. We visited the school where they put the crosses. It was overpowering. I found the news media to be insensitive though and more then once asked them to leave someone be. They had enough to deal with and didn't need a camera shoved in their faces. The people were all very nice that we met. We did get 3 hours off the day before we were flying home. We got to travel to a mountain. It was really neat because it was so warm at the bottom and there was snow at the top. It was very pretty. We met family and friends of the victims the first night we arrived. It was a very overwelming experiance.

 

[Trish Bessette]

Those 13 victims are now angles looking over all of us. God Bless their families and friends.

Thank you Ann for this post.

 

[JoNo]

On this note I must it it IS very saddening that someone would be stupid enough to go into their school & shoot people out of hatred.

I must also recommend, or even demand, that everyone go and rent the movie Bowling For Columbine. It'll make you think twice. It's harsh, brutal, and fierce... But it IS the truth.

 

[tc]

Being from Colorado, and having two kids in high school during this tragedy, makes this a tough day. I remember that day like it was yesterday. The entire state was in shock, as well as the nation. We spent weeks counseling kids, then went through lock downs and tight security from that day on.

Thank you for remembering this day. Perhaps by remembering, we can prevent it from ever happening again.

 

[piglet too]

I still get chills when I look back to that day. My husband has had the honor to do some work out there, and place truly changed after the awful day. Just sitting here now the awful images are going through my head. Prayers for all of those impacted by this event.

 

[shortbun]

5 years-it seems like just last year. As a parent and school bus
driver, I see daily the bullying and abuse children heap upon
each other. It is up to us, the adults, to stop these acts of
verbal and physical abuse whenever we see them occuring.
I do not allow bullying in any form on my bus nor in my house.
DS's school has an anti-bullying program complete with on going
education. All schools should have one. I see young men abusing
each other, boys manhandling girls, girls threatening and verbally
abusing each other, older kids bullying younger ones, disabled
children being labled and laughed at almost every day. It is
abhorrent!!! After you hug your child today, sit down and have
a talk with them about bullying. Tell them what all the forms are,
tell them to ask for help if it happens to them. Tell them it's not
ok to suffer in silence and it IS ok to tell on a bully. Tell them you
will defend their right to be bully free no matter what it takes and
that you will not tolerate their being a bully. Teach them how to
mentor, explain empathy and compassion to them. Tell them it is
ok for their peers to be different. Tell them to discourage their
friends from bullying. Children who are trapped into depression
and darkness from being treated like Dylan and Erik were treated
often feel they have no way out. They are not stupid, they are
young and society has taken away their ability to defend themselves but made it easy for them to get a weapon. And
by all means-see Bowling For Columbine.

 

[DSNY FN]

Bowling for Columbine was a great movie. I really liked what Maralyn Manson said about going there and not asking the kids anything but listening to what they had to say. As was stated in this thread the media is all about the bad and never the good. It is tragic how easily you can buy a wepon in the US not a bashing the US thing just an observation. I really do think the gun laws should be re addressed in the US and be made a little more stringent it would help to curb this habit even in the littlest bit anything has got to help. I hope everyone is doing well today and take the fact you have children doing well and being safe as a great step towards a better tomorrow talk to them and listen to them it really does help.

 

[two4ruff]

Working at a junior high, I see all kinds of kids - some hurting in many ways.

Everyone needs to hug their kids today - and find it in your heart to hug a few others.

 

[NHAnn]

I haven't seen Bowling for Columbine. Will have to do so..........

 

[DSNY FN]

Really great movie Ann it really opens your eyes to alot of things going on around you that you may not even notice.

 

[luv2nascar]

can't believe its been five years already
prayers to the families and all those involved