July/August 2000 |
17 year old Columbine Student, Mike Johnson, survived several shots including one to the head that nearly killed him. He has completed rehabilitation and is in excellent health. He plans on a career in teaching at the late elementary level. Mike is back at Columbine High School with his friends and looks forward to graduating next May. He is also employed as a Chief of Staff at a neighborhood movie theater.
"Columbine is now only a little more than a year out of it, and it still seems like it will never end. To see other people in different places who have had a little more time and have moved on helps us realize that things will get better."
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Columbine Survivor
Shares To
me the Gathering was an experience that changed my perspective of school
shootings. Before, everybody I knew who went through the things I did
were from Columbine. The only people we have had the opportunity to
communicate with have been in very similar situations. When we talk
about shootings here we think Blue and Silver, Black Trenchcoats, and
the library. That is the one track we have had in communicating our
situations But at the gathering, it set up the premise for discussion
on a much more broad scale. I was able to meet people who have gone
through similar situations outside of Columbine and have pulled through.
It helps to see that Columbine is not alone. We are not the only school
in the country who knows what it is like to go through something like
this. There are people outside of Littleton, Colorado who know what
it is like to struggle through what we did. Copyright ©
2000 The Lullaby for Columbine Project.
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