Remembering “Columbine"
The word “columbine” depicts the name of a flower, such as the white-flowered Colorado Blue Columbine. To me the name will always represent a “Connie"; it was the name of President Eisenhower’s aircraft—back before we started referring to the presidential aircraft as “Air Force One.” That “Columbine" was in the news quite often when I was in high school.
In keeping with mankind's ability to turn something lovely into something ugly, survivor Evan Todd reminds us of the April 20, 1999 attack on Columbine High School in Jefferson County, Colorado.
It’s going on 20 years since this event occurred, and yet we still have schools without armed and trained faculty/staff responders. People are still relying on deadly "gun free zones” for protection from the incarnate evil that murdered 13 people that day at Columbine High School.
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