In Memory of The Deceased

In Loving Memory of The Deceased at

Columbine High

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Cassie Bernall

17, became a born-again Christian two years ago and was active in church youth programs and Bible study groups. Bernall recently visited Great Britain. Her favorite movie was said to be Mel Gibson’s “Braveheart.”

Steven Curnow

14, dreamed of being a Navy top gun and piloting an F-16. He had seen the “Star Wars” movies so often he could recite dialogue from the films. Curnow played soccer as a boy and later worked as a referee to earn pocket money.

Corey DePooter

17, was a good student who loved to golf, hunt and fish. A former wrestler, he recently took a maintenance job at a golf club to save up for a fishing boat with a friend. DePooter hid under a library table with friends as the gunmen sprayed bullets at floor level.

Kelly Fleming

16, was an aspiring songwriter and author who wrote scores of poems and short stories based on her life experiences. She was learning to play the guitar. Fleming moved from Phoenix 18 months ago and was eager to get her driver’s license and a part-time job. She was shot in the library.

Matthew Kechter

16, was a junior who had hoped to start for the football team. Ketcher lifted weights and played on offensive and defensive lines. He maintained an A average in school. Ketcher was shot in the library after he tried to reach friends hiding in an adjacent video room.

Daniel Mauser

15, was a sophomore who excelled in math and science, and earned straight A’s on his last report card. Mauser ran cross country and joined the debate team. He liked to ski, camp and recently returned from a two-week trip to Paris with the French club. Mauser was hoping to get his driver’s license next year.

Daniel Rohrbough

15, helped in his father’s electronics business and worked on family farms in Kansas during the summer. He enjoyed computer games, stereos and home theater systems. Rohrbough was shot while holding an exit door open for fleeing students.

William “Dave” Sanders

47, was a computer and business teacher for 24 years. Sanders coached girls’ basketball and softball; his basketball team posted a winning record in his first year, 1997-98, after finishing next-to-last the year before. He was married with two daughters and five grandchildren. Sanders was shot twice in the chest in a burst of gunfire while leading two-dozen students down a hallway to safety. He survived at least three hours, until students were rescued. Students said as Sanders lay dying, he asked them to please tell his children that “he loved them.”

Rachael Scott

17, played the lead in a student-written school play, “Smoke in the Room.” Active in the Celebration Christian Fellowship church, she also liked photography and was hoping to work as a missionary in Africa. Scott earned good grades while working at a Subway sandwich shop to pay off the car she had borrowed from her parents. During the shooting rampage, her younger brother Craig, 16, played dead in the library and helped lead others to safety.

Isaiah Shoels

18, was due to graduate in May. He suffered health problems as a child and had heart surgery twice. Shoels wanted to attend an arts college and become a music executive. He was small in stature, but played football, wrestled and could bench-press twice his weight. Shoels transferred from Lakewood High School. He was shot in the head execution-style in the school library specifically because of his race and athletic interests, witnesses said.

John Tomlin

16, enjoyed driving off-road in his Chevy pickup. He worked after school in a gardening store and belonged to a church youth group. Last year, Tomlin went on a missionary trip to Mexico with his family and helped build a house for low-income people. He planned to enlist in the Army in two years.

Lauren Townsend

18, was captain of the girls’ varsity basketball team, which was coached by her mother. Fellow players said she was “consumed” by the sport. Townsend was a member of the National Honor Society, a candidate for class valedictorian, and wanted to major in biology in college.

Eric Harris - Suspect

18, Senior

Eric Harris - Suspect

Dylan Klebold - Suspect

Dylan Klebold - Suspect

17, Senior

THIS IS

It is really nothing more than a thundering silence,
A poison without the antidote.
It is the over population of a shoebox-sized world.
It is hate
It is intolerance for those with hard-to-define differences
It is hostility towards one another
Because of race, religion or nationality.
This is not a vision, a daydream, or a nightmare.
This is the harsh reality of hate and it's oh-so-pathetic followers.
This is hate
This is the act of the strong, thick palms of hate grasping the throat of all that's in it's eyes are "imperfect" squeezing hard and not letting go.
This is the harsh reality of it all.
This is the gas chambers from long ago still screaming at the sights they have seen,
The sounds they have heard and the damage they've done
This is about 6 million deaths, for one cause IMPERFECTION.
This is about the hanging of 200 people in a day because of allegation of early Salem, Massachusetts.
This is Black, White, Red, and Grey,
This is dull color with fierce motives
This is hate
This is death
This is a piercing silence with no mercy to cease the noise.
This is the pungent odor of death and, The blinding lights and sight of destruction
This is hate
This is the unity of all that is evil yet strong, all that is dark and deceitful, it was used to be.
It is now, History's repetitions.
This is a global shadow of negativity, slowly swallowing all that shines. all that heals, all that loves
This is the questioning of humanity,
This is the mirrored face of Hitler that has taken on a new name-Miliosevic.
It is camouflaged pain because they are supposed to be doctors
This is a ghetto
This is a camp
This is Yugoslavia
This is what we stare at day by day
We are 95% incompetent bystanders
We view what we want to see and hear only what we want to hear
We are the ignorant people to Sirabaya,
We are the ignorant people to past Germany
We are nothing to each other,
This is hate
This paranoia of death in schools
This is 15 students dead
Need i go on????
This is HATE,
This is NOW,
This is US!

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Can you even believe that this is what is in the mind of a 13yr old girl in 7th grade??? You may, but you will never believe how proud I am , as her mother, to know she can see more about this world then the millions of her elders.

Darcy R. Byrne
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