April 20, 1999 holds many a memory. I’ve been asked by LFCNEWS.com to put together a column for the ten year (and final) edition of the Lullaby For Columbine Project News. I’ll be leading up to it over the next few weeks as I explore this memory for me and others through this blog. If you’re interested in doing video or writing to be included in this project, please feel free to @aarondelay on twitter or simply comment on this post.
I may take some flack for taking this and running with it. As I said on twitter, my point is not to get something for myself out of this. If you know me, that’s far from what it is that I do. I simply wish to never let the world forget the word, “Columbine” and the events that now surround it. Through conversations, through video blogs, through written posts I hope to continue to deal with at times raw emotion that follows the very word.
There are people out there that haven’t fully dealt with the turmoil from ten years ago. There are others that believe they’ve recovered. And there’s me, still struggling to understand and move beyond the powerful emotions that have left indelible scars on my heart.
This is why I do this. I do it to deal. I do it to help recover and through that hopefully reach out to those around me who may be in the same boat. You’re welcome to disagree with me.
More to come in future posts.
I am with you – let us never forget. My father was the teacher killed at Columbine High School and I hope that everyone remembers the bond that our community felt at that time, the kindness, support and caring towards each other. Remember the people that died that day and left it to the rest of us to never let it happen in that way again.
“we are (always) Columbine”
Posted by Coni Sanders | April 18, 2009, 5:39 pm