10 YEARS LATER, THE REAL STORY BEHIND COLUMBINEWell, it took them ten years to come up with a different conclusion than we had previously been told? I don't think so. To me, the "real story" doesn't sound any different than the original one.
There are 12 dozen websites or more about Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold and their Trench Coat Mafia. Many sites with links that now go nowhere. This site describe Eric and Dylan as The Depressive and the Psychopath. There is the urban myth website surrounding Columbine, the "Jewish Connection" website and of course Michael Moores "Bowling for Columbine" documentary on guns in the USA. There is even a Video Game. Theories and Conclusions go left and right and from every angle. Aside from all of this analysis I remember how I quietly felt inside 10 years ago. I felt everyone and anyone who had been tormented in High School felt the same way, we all just sighed, "good for them".
Having been harassed in high school, I felt the anger of the Columbine shooters. I wished they would have succeeded in blowing up the whole school. In my mind I had canonized Eric and Dylan as saints... They had done what each and every one of us had only thought of doing.
With that said, of course what had happened was horrific and a terrible loss. Not only for those who were shot and their families, but for Eric and Dylan themselves. High School may seem like hell, but those four years don't last forever, once it's over, it is SO over!
As bad as my High School was, I DID go to my 10 yr reunion. I was thinking that "everyone must have grown up by now" and I was right. People talked to me at my reunion that I had never heard any other work come out of their mouths but "FAG" before. I guess the lesson is that high school is awful for most everyone, even the cheerleaders and the jocks have their 'stuff' to deal with.
We all get over our high school trauma eventually and grow up. But if you kill everybody off including yourself, you'll never grow up to realize that.
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