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A Lasting Image of the Columbine Massacre

Columbine Massacre
Horror Continues
Community Devestated
Works Cited

Two teenage boys begin a shooting rampage at local high school.

"You die or not-that's what it came down to."

On April 20th, 1999, the students and teachers at Columbine high school in Littleton, Colorado, became numb with grief after two of their fellow students turned their place to learn, into a place to kill. The sunny spring day was draped with sorrow and misery, as Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, began a shooting rampage, devastating their school in a matter of 15 minutes. Hallways and classrooms became bloody battlefields filled with smoke, while bathrooms instantly transformed into safe sanctuaries. Sounds of gunshots wounding friends, frantically beating hearts and metal pellets punching the schools’ lockers, sliced the airs in the once calm hallways. Hundreds of bodies resembled a cloud of swarming bees, each one trying to escape as the terror mounted, wondering what they were to do, where they were to go and even more terrifyingly, would they survive? That was up to Harris and Klebold.  

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Eric Harris(Left) and Dylan Klebold(Right), two teenage murderers, and their highschool where the massacre took place, Columbine Highschool in Littleton, Colorado.