Yes, the Ever-lasting contrast. Since existence has known, the 'fight' between good & evil has continued. Obviously, this fight can never end. Good things turn bad, bad things become good. My fav. contrasting symbol, because it is so true & means so much – the battle between good & bad never ends… Here we ponder on the tragedy of Dylan Klebold.
Sue Klebold Book to be released February 2016 and ABC’s Diane Sawyer Will Have First Television Interview Ever with Sue Klebold, Mother of Columbine Shooter Dylan Klebold
Klebold Will Discuss the Topics Revealed in Her Memoir, “A Mother’s Reckoning,”
Including the Tragedy and What She Learned About Her Son
ABC News Primetime Special Examining Warning Signs of School Shootings and Mental Health Will Air in February, 2016 Sawyer’s In-Depth Interview Will Air Across All ABC News Platforms
ABC News Anchor Diane Sawyer will have the first television interview with Sue Klebold, mother of Columbine shooter Dylan Klebold. Klebold will discuss the topics revealed in her memoir, A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy.
The interview will air during a one-hour ABC News primetime special investigating school shootings and mental health in February, 2016. ABC will also report on the lasting impact of mass shootings on our communities and what might be done to prevent them from happening.?
A Mother’s Reckoning will be released on February 16, 2016 by Crown.
Klebold writes about coming to terms with the murder-suicide by her son and Eric Harris at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999. She shares potential warning signs and offers insights that may be able to help other parents and students in the future.
Klebold is donating all of her profits from the book to research and to charitable foundations with a focus on mental health issues.
Excerpts from Sawyer’s in-depth interview will air across all ABC News platforms, including “Good Morning America,” “World News Tonight with David Muir,” “Nightline,”ABCNews.com, ABC News Radio and ABC NewsOne.
It’s a bit like comparing apples to oranges. Eric knew he had problems and he was getting help for them but the steps taken to fix his mental illness was like putting a band-aid over it. The meds controlled and zombie-fied him, and the therapy was only as good as his honesty with his issues was. Dylan knew he was depressed but wasn’t fully admitting to himself that he needed to reach out for help. He avoided ticking off any of the obvious check box problems (Depression, Suicide, Homicide) on his Diversion questionnaire unlike Eric who volunteered that he was having these types of problems. Dylan seemed to think he could manage his depression himself and concealed his suffering from friends and family (though Zack likely knew the most). The fact that he submerged his issues and didn’t confide in anyone in a way that would allow him to get help, made his mental illness equally problematic as Eric’s because his issues were stewing and building up within him. Eric externalized the frustration more than Dylan; he punched walls and vented on his website and got the frustrations out of himself but it was all just cycling and rebuilding in intensity. Dylan was just holding it all in and there was no where for it to be processed productively. Both were floundering in their mental illness and with no way to see a light at the end of the tunnel, the possibility that life could be better, 4/20 became the solution, the answer to their release and freedom from the pain. The two were both powder kegs, one about to explode and the other implode. Ironically, on 4/20, Dylan exploded by externalizing and expressing himself the most vocally whereas Eric quietly imploded and turned the rage on himself by quickly committing suicide first.
Different sources say different things. Some have said Eric and some, Dylan, as in this 911 extended transcript while other sources like this Jeffco ‘Finding of Library of Events , simply mentions ‘a witness heard one of the gunmen say’ This seems to be because it isn’t perfectly clear as to who said what. The 911 transcripts vary too. The one I mention above that lists Dylan as saying it doesn’t even have the first interaction they make with hiding students upon entering the library where you can clearly hear the two say on the very indistinct audio clips Eric: “Get up!” Dylan: “Eeeeverybody get up NOW!” Many of the students in the library didn’t really know specifically which dude said what in the library let alone when they’d first entered into the library. The 911 audio tape that’s on youtube is tbh, a really horrible quality and I wonder how much of a clearer version Jeffco actually has/had in it’s possession. I tend to think not all that better. Also, their 911 transcripts are really incomplete and sketchy.
As I said, many of the students were confused as to which gunmen said what. Only that they appeared in the doorway through a cloud of smoke – probably from Eric’s shotgun and the pipe bombs and crickets tossed just outside the library door. The fire alarm goes off soon after because of the smoke billowing in the air..
The reason I tend to believe that Dylan is the one who’d said it is in relation to the testimony Bree Pasquale gives in conjunction with Evan Todd who was the very first person to be shot but only injured. Todd mentions that Eric is the first to fire into the library (from just outside the door) at Todd who is hiding behind a pillar at the front desk. Eric doesn’t speak just notices Todd; the two make eye contact and Eric racks his round and fires two from his shotgun at Todd who ducks and the damage hits the pillar and slightly injures Todd. According to Bree, Dylan enters into the library slightly ahead of Eric and this is when both begin to yell to everyone to ‘get up now!’ at which point Dylan would then logically say in response to nobody cooperating and doing as they commanded “fine, I’ll start shooting” and would then be walking towards Kyle, who was supposedly very visible not hiding too well if at all, and aiming his shotgun at him. So , Eric shoots first andinjures the first person from outside the library and Dylan shoots first within the library and kills the first library victim, Kyle Valesquez. It would make sense that Dylan said ‘fine, I’ll start shooting’ once they’d entered and no one did as they demanded and got up. Unfortunately, there is just no crystal clear way to verify and determine exactly everything each boy said in the library because the evidence released is sketchy.
While I agree with you that Dylan’s weapons of choice were a bit shitter than Eric’s (I don’t know about ‘10 x worse’ as you suggest), I don’t feel it is the only viable reason for his lagging kill count. It seems a combination of Dylan being more interested in wrecking havoc, terrorizing and raising hell as well as him discovering rather quickly that his selected weapons didn’t perform as efficient or ‘cool’ as he had fantazied about in his head. For example, outside, Dylan’s non factory 50 magazine for his 9 mm Tec supposedly jammed and was dropped on the grass still full of bullets but he still had other clips, two 36s and a 24. I think there was even a magazine found in his BMW that I recall. If he was eager to kill, he still had time to jump right in, reload his Tec 9 to get in some more warm-up target practice but for whatever reason, he didn’t do so. Instead, Dylan chose to mix it up by messing around with the arsenal at his disposal: he chose to wander off near the parking lot and lob pipe bombs. According to record, he tried a mere 2 rounds of his double barrel shotgun – and likely realized it was a horrible distance shot on running human targets. He spent a lot of time going up and down the stairs near the commons and was the most scene by witnesses through the windows. He was the show off presence that shot Lance in the jaw within an audience left to gasp in horror at the windows. It was reported that Dylan even walked in the commons as people were fleeing in a panic up the cafeteria staircase and yet, he refrained from shooting or throwing any of the incendiaries at his disposal. In the hallway, he got in 31 rounds of Tec 9 mm target practice and 4 shotgun rounds but he spent a fair amount of time taking it all with the journey and not the destination: enjoying the site and sounds of destructive impact on Columbine’s interior, running down the hallway chasing screaming students and shooting at the walls and the lockers along the way. He happened to maim a couple of students including aiming, for whatever reason, super low and succeeding a blast on Stephanie Munson’s ankle. Ok, yeah, they’re moving targets and somewhat long distance but an ankle just seems silly. And again, Dylan didn’t wander into the bathroom to hunt down the girl who ran from the payphone. Maybe he hit his limit in murdering etiquette that a gentleman hitman does not hunt down a girl in the girls restroom? lol 😏
Inside the library there was a lot of opportunity for close range kills especially with the shotguns. Dylan succeeded using his shot gun straight off the bat and wounded Kyle Valesquez’s head and shoulder with deadly accuracy, killing him instantly. He started off boldly in the library, as if he were electing to set the tone there by volunteering a “fine, I’ll start shooting!” Thereafter, Eric spent 21 shotgun rounds and the library yet Dylan only a total of 6. Dylan 21 9 mm rounds and Eric 13 with his carbine. I’m not really certain if Dylan’s Tec jammed there, I don’t think so? At any rate, at such close range, you’d think he’d have had better chance at success. Did he perhaps spend a fair amount of time shooting glass display cases or blasting holes in computers and tv sets to supersede Eric’s 9 mm count by 8 ? For some reason, Lauren was the only one Dylan went hog wild on drilling Tech bullets into. Yet, all in total in the library, at close range with sitting ducks under tables or half tables, Eric manages to surpass Dylan at the kill count. Most of Dylan’s kills are in tandem with Eric on a person, even. In the library, Dylan was said to be the more vocal one, whooping it up, hollering and having the time of his life and Eric more quiet and methodical. He spares Valeen after taunting her. He inflicts his verbal wrath on Evan Todd, yet let’s him live and gives him to Eric even, with a ‘you can have him..if you want.’ All in all, to me, it seems that it wasn’t just that Dylan’s weapons sucked but that he was simply less motivated to murder with deadly intent and accuracy and more interested in terrorizing and enjoying the power trip. Here’s a total shots diagram for anyone interested.
Jeffco’s reasoning is that unlike Dylan and Eric’s journals, the Basement Tapes are considered an inspiring, rousing ‘Call to Arms’ to troubled youth that feel the same way as them. Dylan and Eric are recruiting them by looking directly in the camera and talking to their intended audience sort of like Uncle Sam recruiting an impassioned ‘We want YOU to join us and follow in our footsteps!’
Short answer is that Jeffco is, as you say, is essentially, well, stupid. Other shooters ‘mini’ Basement Tapes have been released and even published on youtube or shown on tv. The shooter, Alvaro Castillo was fascinated by Columbine and Eric Harris and wanted (and did attempt) to follow in the boys’ footsteps regardless of the Basement Tapes being released. Quite a few of his tapes which were broadcast in his trial were all released on youtube. We also have bits of Cho Seung-Hui’s tapes and Elliot Rodger’s last ‘Retribution’ video. All released, all stating their cause and could also be considered a ‘Call to Arms’ to any troubled youth surfing Youtube. If you consider them so-called ‘copycats’ of E & D, then they were inspired and took action, again, regardless of whether Eric and Dylan’s Basement Tapes were released. And who is to say that Elliot Rodger wasn’t inspired by Cho Seung-Hui or all the other tapes freely released before? James Holmes barely researched Columbine and did his thing not one iota inspired by any other previous shooters. If you’re watching the trials than you know James Holmes shot up a theater for entirely his own reasons with his own motivations and agenda. The shootings continue regardless of tapes being released or not. The root of the matter has nothing to do with any shooters Basement Tapes. (Why does Jeffco give E & D celebrity by making their BTs so deniably attractive?) As long as source of the problem is brushed under the carpet and not addressed, the shootings will continue.
The fact that Jeffco chose not to release the Basement Tapes and denied them (supposedly permanently as of this year) from the public has shrouded them deeper in intrigue and mystery. It begs the question: what is so important that they would rather keep the public ignorantly in the dark? They’ve acted like a parent denying it’s citizens the right to view the tapes, to evaluate and judge them for themselves. It’s censorship and it demonstrates that they ultimately do not trust the populace to handle the evidence. Jeffco has built up a fascination about the tapes and they have become a holy grail or forbidden fruit of sorts for youth simply because it’s human nature to want what we’re told we cannot have. Jeffco has made the tapes vastly more potent and attractive than if they had just casually released the tapes along with the journals and all the other Columbine evidence. Release all and let the public decide. And yet, somehow, it’s ok for the violent ISIS terrorist acts or the Boston pressure cooker bombing footage to end up on Youtube. The shootings will continue, and have continued as evidence with Dylann Storm Roof just this past week , regardless of the Basement Tapes release.
Devon’s ‘Art from Ashes’ 10th Anniversary 2014 Speech – This is her most recent commentary, a wonderful example of her intelligence, wisdom and kindness. Devon really does get the full picture simply because she was caught in the middle, friends with the killers, ‘best friends’ with Dylan and friends with the victims (including Rachel) of those killer friends of hers. Ugh. How does one even comprehend that and reach a resolve? Quite a very odd uncomfortable place to be. But she has managed to grapple with all of it over the years and maintain a very healthy, unbiased perspective that stems from love and understanding as result of being smack dab in the neutral that is ‘Switzerland’.
I think he dreaded it at first and was looking forward to it being over. However, I think he found himself kind of pleasantly surprised in the midst of it all and by something he thought he would loathe so much. He was surrounded by some people he knew in the limo, some of which were part of the same gifted program in elementary school. They were all cutting loose and joking around. He was at ease enough with Robyn, enough to compliment how she looked and to hold hands with her as she initated that with him. The two clowned around over dinner pretending to light themselves on fire ( and what’s not to love here, hm?) Robyn and Devon managed to coax him out on the dance floor, and Devon got him to slooow dance with him to “Take My Breathe Away” – I mean, how is this miracle possible????!! Well, it apparently it was and so he must have felt o…k enough in himself to participate as much as he did – and part of that may have had to do with the fact that he was living this as if it was his ‘last party on the earth’. Celebration before death day countdown. He was going to do everything at that dance for the very first and very last time in his life, so why not? Just let go. Eric wasn’t there to set boundaries that he shouldn’t dance because ‘it’s ridiculous looking’. Dylan was with people that wanted to pull him in and get him to participate. That’s what he did to the best of his ability. 😊 Later, at After Prom, he got to rejoin up with Eric and his other dudes and they hit the gambling tables. I’m sure he was good at poker and figuring out all the right card deck moves and the right advantages to win. Guys eat that sort of stuff up, and he was no exception. Then Robyn took him home.. I love how Robyn drove him to and from prom – very cute that she was a bit ‘in charge’ that way because she claimed him to be the dude to go with her to prom. 😏 Yeah, I think he had a pretty good time, certainly better than he ever expected or hoped for. Sue mentions that Dylan was actually effusive when he got home and confessed to her “I had the best night of my life” according to her book “A Mother’s Reckoning”. I think that he meant that genuinely..that it was a pleasant surprise.
Brooks came home from school, and told his mom that a friend had tipped him off about a Web site Eric had created, in which in addition to hate language and angry threats such as “I am the law, if you don’t like it, you die. If I don’t like you or I don’t like what you want me to do, you die. God I can’t wait till I can kill you people”, he also threatened to kill Brooks.
But Klebold cared enough about Brown to alert him to death threats on Harris’ Web site.
It was Dylan, the loyal friend, who had tipped Brooks off about Eric’s Website. Dylan was afraid of Eric finding this out, so asked for Brooks to not tell anyone who had tipped him off.
“He was really looking out for me,” Brown said. “That’s the way he was. An extremely good kid.”
Although the Browns reported this to the police and they were aware of his Web site, no action was taken to look into it. No one, even Brooks, believed that Eric would follow through on his threats–they just thought he was blowing off steam. [Source and Source] –
May 2, 1999
Doubts
A month after Columbine, Brooks reasoned that Dylan told him about Eric’s malicious website threats because he was looking out for him. Two plus years later, he questions why Dylan would do such a thing: “maybe he thought it was funny” “maybe he was in on it with Eric”. Years go by and Brooks complicates Dylan’s intent to do what he did, rationalizing it until he’s one big permanent ball of confusion. And yet, it seems pretty simple to me: Brooks was Dylan’s friend from childhood but Eric was also Dylan’s present good friend. Dylan liked both and was obviously caught in a moral dilemma. He cared for the potential safety or lack thereof of his old friend yet was nervous to broach the subject with Eric and tell him to back off Brooks because in his defense of Brooks it would ruin his relationship with Eric. After Dylan lost Zack to Devon, he couldn’t stand to lose Eric as well over political shit about Brooks. So, Dylan opted to take a risk, to secretly warn Brooks and tip him off about the website, purely out of respect for their history together. He asked Brooks for his confidence and he pretty much solidly trusted that Brooks, his long-term friend, would not mention anything so he wouldn’t risk losing his friendship with Eric. Dylan went behind Eric’s back to keep Brooks safe. There was no way to avoid that in trying to protect Brooks. He knew Eric would never see it that way thus the subterfuge. So, it seems crystal clear what Dylan’s intent truly was. Brooks merely let the fact that Dylan made a terrible mistake in the last 49 minutes of his life color everything about his character long before he ever made that choice. Long before Dylan was fully committed with NBK, he cared for all his friends and never wanted to lose a single relationship with any of them. Dylan couldn’t stand the thought of abandonment, to either lose a friendship or by putting a friend’s life in jeopardy which in a sense, amounted to him abandoning them. He’d begun to worry when Eric, who had kept upping the ante with the Brooks website death threats, was going to finally simmer down and forget about it. It just kept getting worse, and eventually, Eric started broadcasting Brooks’ phone number up on the website. So, Dylan intervened and it was quite a risky thing to do for him but he was starting to get a bit worried. He knew the Brown family well from his childhood friendship with Brooks. He wasn’t super close with Brooks these days but they had a lot of good past times together; they were still friends, if a bit more distant. Dylan simply cared too much. But, eventually it got to the point where he let go of the caring because the need to end the pain and leave the earth seemed to hold more sway. If Dylan was the one that came across Brooks on the morning of 4/20, there is no question, imo, that he would’ve let him live. Granted, it would have been a very awkward bumping in to one another but…it’s unquestionable that he would’ve spared Brooks’ life without need for considerations. The loyalty towards a friendship would’ve been clear even then on that terrible day when everyone was supposed to be fair game. Over the years, Brooks forgot this about Dylan and who he was in their personal friendship and doings together.
“He was really looking out for me. That’s the way he was. An extremely good kid.”
What Brooks said in May ‘99 about Dylan in the article above, is the uncomplicated truth which he’s chosen to forget and rationalize away.
And Dylan was just that. End of story. The act on that fateful day shouldn’t have negated any of the ‘good’ or ‘right choices’ that Dylan had made over the year/s before. A couple years after Columbine, Brooks begun to direly need for Dylan’s motivations to be questionable in that moment, shady even, because he simply could not manage to reconcile that Dylan was a good friend that made a decent choice in that moment as he’d done the majority of the times in his life beforehand – yet made one colossal destructive mistake in the end. And yet, the irony…that Dylan could’ve unwittingly stopped Columbine by making that right and good choice, by warning Brooks, but that was not to be in the Hand of Fate.
Mmhm. Definitely fascinates the lot of us and keeps us coming back for more. They were a one of a kind teenage dyad that dreamed and set in motion an unfathomable, destructive plot in a still somewhat-innocent, ripe time period where it could easily be executed and right under everyones’ noses in broad daylight. What they did then in 1999 can no longer be done today with the same impact and all in part because of them. 😉
No major real fighting but annoying one another type nit picking stuff. Just the typical mundane crap; fighting like they’re an old married couple annoyed with one another’s usual traits and whining back and forth at each other. Eric getting pissed at Dyl eating stuff off his plate (after he finished his own) like stealing one too many french fries and waffling it down. Dyl leaving shit laying around at Eric’s house after a sleep over and Eric annoyed that stuff needs to be pickup and put back into order for his parents. Eric being pissy and moody at Dyl for spending too much time lately smoking cigarettes with Brooks and not him…or Zach..or Nate.. whoever Eric disliked at the moment. Dyl getting annoyed at Reb for nudging him just a tad too much to go say ‘hi’ or make a move with girls he knows Dyl has a crush on, and Dyl getting flustered, embarrassed, agitated and pissy because he only wants to do that on his own terms when he’s ready to. That umpteenth time they went to see Tobin at “All Wound Up” and Reb is bugging the fuck out of Dyl “just go up to the counter V and make a move already, ‘GAAWD!’.” Dyl getting maxed out and fed up with Eric telling him what to do, how to do it, and oh yes, to “shut up, Dylan!” acerbically yelling that to him in front of a bunch of peers and girls. Eric being a tad too merciless picking on certain girls and Dyl telling him to stop already, shaking his head. Like that time Eric relished making fun of Jennifer Harmon trying to sing a Rammstein song ‘like a dork’ or when Eric went ballistic on the girl that accidentally ran into Dylan’s car and was in tears, apologizing for it. Dylan being so fed up with Reb so just point-blank calmly orders him to “get in the car”. Eric making fun of Dyl’s music tastes with the ‘emo gnashing bumpkins’ and let’s not even go into Chemical Bros. A cold-war silent treatment did happen briefly between the boys as accounted by Blackjack manager Jason Secor.
Those silvery gray ‘bracelets’ were functional match strikers which the boys’ ingeniously cut from the side of a box of matches and taped together with silvery grey electrical tape, each bracelet had two strikers. They could easily light the fuses of their pipe bombs and other incendiaries in a very consistently accessible manner. In the boys’ usual symbolically contrasting yin/yang, aesthetic, Dylan being left-handed, wore his striker bracelet on his right wrist and Eric being right handed wore his striker on his left wrist. The ingenuity of their amateur invention was considered ingenious by the authorities.
Below: match striking strips cut from the side of a match boxes.
Love and Hate, Dark and Light
Too heavy too light Too black or too white Too wrong or too right
The everlasting contrast….
Dark. Light. God. Lucifer. Heaven. Hell. GOOD. BAD. Yes, the ever-lasting contrast. Since
existence has known the ‘fight’ between good & evil has continued. Obviously, this fight
can never end. Good things turn bad, bad things become good, the ‘people’ on the earth
see it as a battle they can win. HA fuckin morons.
“Goodbye, sorry to everyone … I just can’t take it … all the thoughts … too many … make my head twist … I must have happiness, love, peace. Goodbye”
“no emotions, not caring, yet another stage in this shit life. suicide.”
“Society is tightening its grip on me, & soon I & will snap. We will have our revenge on society, & then be free, to exist in a timeless spaceless place of pure happiness. The purpose of life is to be happy & be with your love who is equally happy. Not much more to say. Goodbye.”
“This is prob. my last entry. I love myself a close second to [redacted] my everlasting love. goodbye.”
“The happiness is close, visible ending, end of the beginning of the halcyons.”
“Time to die, time to be free, time to love.”
“Today is the day I die!” Woooo!“
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April 20, 1999 – April 20, 2015 – 12:08 am MT
17 years later on the earth plane, and on this day, we hope you have found that reprieve, Dylan. That ‘PEACE’ that you so craved to end your earthly infinite struggle. Here is hoping that your resurrection into the Halycons and beyond, into your next Existence (whichever door that may be in the Great Hall) is filled with everlasting love, peace and happiness. Absolution from your own self tormentations and forgiveness from the 13 victims of whom you projected your earthly pain and suffering on to. To be like a phoenix rising from the ashes – for all fifteen, for their families and extended families and everyone else who have been affected by this tragedy in their own ways, like a multitude of ripples on a unfathomably large body of water. Peace out.
“16 years ago I didn’t take the time to tell a friend what he meant to me. Blame it on being shy or a teenager or selfish. But now I don’t have that chance. No one needs the kind of regret that comes from not taking the chance at love, no matter how small”
Devon Adams, 4/20/2015
Hey all, I wanted to make a request. Tomorrow, April 20th, is the 16th anniversary of the shootings at Columbine High School. For a lot of survivors, tomorrow marks the point where we have lived half of our life Before and half After. All of the anniversaries are hard, but this one has a certain weight to it.
So, the request: tomorrow, if you would, please make an extra effort to be kind. I know that we all can get mired down by negativity and focusing on the crummy little things of daily life. Its easy. But life is scarily, shockingly short. And I have three friends who no longer have the luxury of being grumpy about the guy tailgating them or that their food took too long at a restaurant. More importantly, they can no longer laugh or cry or gaze in wonder at the mountains or catch a snowflake on their tongued or hug those they love.
There is so much fear and hatred and vitriol in the world, and for just one day, it would be beautiful if we blotted all of that out with an excess of kindness.
16 years ago I didn’t take the time to tell a friend what he meant to me. Blame it on being shy or a teenager or selfish. But now I don’t have that chance. No one needs the kind of regret that comes from not taking the chance at love, no matter how small.
Maybe it’s as small as making eye contact and smiling at a stranger. Or letting another car in as you merge onto the highway. Or calling that friend who you’ve been meaning to call. Anything. Because the best way to honor those lives lost 16 years ago, and those forever changed, is not to dwell on the horror of that day, but to flood the world with love in hopes that we can change things for the better.
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King Jr
Approximately 10:30 a.m. (Mountain Time), Eric’s house
Harris: Say it now.
Klebold: Hey mom. Gotta go. It’s about a half an hour before our little judgment day. I just wanted to apologize to you guys for any crap this might instigate as far as [inaudible] or something.
Just know I’m going to a better place. I didn’t like life too much and I know I’ll be happy wherever the fuck I go. So I’m gone. Good-bye. Reb …
Dylan takes the camera then and begins filming Eric. Eric’s also wearing a plaid shirt that’s either dark blue or black with white, with a white t-shirt on underneath. His lower half can’t be seen.
Harris: Yeah… Everyone I love, I’m really sorry about all this. I know my mom and dad will be just like … just fucking shocked beyond belief. I’m sorry, all right. I can’t help it.
Klebold: [interrupts] We did what we had to do.
Harris: (Chris) Morris, Nate (Dykeman), if you guys live, I want you guys to have whatever you want from my room and the computer room.
Dylan adds that they can have his things as well.
Harris: Susan [Dewitt], sorry. Under different circumstances it would’ve been a lot different. I want you to have that Fly CD.
Harris: That’s it. Sorry. Goodbye.
Klebold: [sticks his face in the camera] GOODBYE.
The tape ends with a brief glimpse of a sign on the wall of Eric’s bedroom, someone’s arm partially blocking it from sight. It’s the letters CHS along with a drawing of a bomb with a lit fuse and, in bold black letters, the word “clue.”
I would like to light a candle for Cassie Bernall, Steve Curnow, Corey DePooter, Kelly Fleming, Eric Harris, Matt Kechter, Dylan Klebold, Daniel Mauser, Daniel Rohrbough, Rachel Scott, Isaiah Shoels, John Tomlin, Lauren Townsend, Kyle Velasquez and Dave Sanders. May you all have found peace wherever you are. You are not forgotten.
The Everlasting Contrast 
