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On April 20th 1999 Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris walked into Columbine Highschool and killed 13 people, injuring 21 more and devastating a community, a nation and the world.
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On April 28th 1999 there was a school shooting in Taber Alberta, not too far from my city. It was only the second first fatal high school shooting in Canada and one of only three recorded. These two events left me with a new kind of sadness, fear and more questions than answers. (I actually had no idea that prior to this America had already had many school shootings, which makes my anger towards the recent continuation or mass shootings even worse.)
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Columbine took me a long time to listen to. I kept finding myself angry, sad and anxious and had to continuously take a break. It was so emotionally draining. The narration switches back and forth between the “before”, the killers evolution toward murder and the “after”, the story of the survivors. The back and forth was so powerful. The contrast between the dark and the light, the pain and the recovery, the devastation and the possibility of hope. There was so much insight into everything beyond that tragic event in American History.
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I cried more time’s than I care to admit. #readwithmarti they said... it’ll be fun they said. I definitely recommend this book but with a HUGE HUGE warning that it is traumatic and will NOT be for everyone.