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20 years ago today - Columbine High School massacre- where were you?

Posted on 4/20/19 at 10:04 am
Posted by Jody Baw
Member since Mar 2019
182 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 10:04 am
At 11:19 AM MDT is the time the shooting took place and lasted for 49 minutes.

This event was definitely a life changing experience for most of us. I was in 11th grade and remember the feeling of fear and always having to be more cautious by always thinking about what my plan would be in each classroom I was in if a shooting were to happen at my school. I never had that fear before Columbine.
Posted by Shepherd
Member since Nov 2009
2948 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 10:06 am to
At work.. not believing it happened. Now, unfortunately, news like this is almost a blip in people’s day.
Posted by DeafJam73
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2010
18508 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 10:08 am to
I was 7 years old. I didn’t really have an understanding of what was going on.
Posted by Cdawg
TigerFred's Living Room
Member since Sep 2003
59605 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 10:11 am to
Bruh, it was 4/20, I was probably smoking a bowl jamming to Phish.
Posted by lsunurse
Member since Dec 2005
129037 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 10:17 am to
quote:

where were you?


I was 21. I don't remember to be honest.

Probably in class in nursing school.

Posted by Lawyered
The Sip
Member since Oct 2016
29466 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 10:20 am to
The one that inspired all other school attacks . Ugh.

These kids hopped up on dangerous anti-depressants ruining those other lives . Such a shame

Posted by GeorgeTheGreek
Sparta, Greece
Member since Mar 2008
66471 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 10:20 am to
I was in 5th grade. I remember my parents watching it on the news but that’s about it.
Posted by Pedro
Geaux Hawks
Member since Jul 2008
33691 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 10:21 am to
Probs throwing my sippy cup on my mom or something along those lines
Posted by Rize
Spring Texas
Member since Sep 2011
15834 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 10:27 am to
I was a senior in high school.
Posted by oleyeller
Vols, Bitch
Member since Oct 2012
32022 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 10:29 am to
was 16 in school here in mississippi. It was a big deal obviously... but Pearl,MS was before columbine.. and that was closer to home for us
Posted by DoctorBandito
Member since Apr 2019
9 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 10:31 am to
Didn't hear about it till after school. This was before cellphones. School banned trench coats the week after. The Columbine library video is probably the 3rd worst video i ever seen behind the station night club fire and daniel pearl getting beheaded
Posted by TigerStripes06
SWLA
Member since Sep 2006
30032 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 10:35 am to
I was a sophomore in high school. Had just moved to Phoenix in January and was going to a high school with 3000 kids...wishing I could move back to Mississippi to my private school that had 600 people in it from K-12.

I remember sitting in the cafeteria with about 500 other people watching all of it unfold on tv. The only time that many people in the cafeteria were completely silent.
Posted by OweO
Plaquemine, La
Member since Sep 2009
114038 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 10:36 am to
In college, I really don't remember the day it happened, I didn't really follow the news much back then..
Posted by SEC. 593
Chicago
Member since Aug 2012
4047 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 10:36 am to
We were visiting my GFs parents in England and it was huge news even there. They broke into the primetime evening programs with the news report.
Posted by atxfan
Member since Jul 2004
3551 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 10:49 am to
I don't remember to be honest. It was different than 9/11 when everyone was callin each other and telling them to turn on their TV immediately. I do remember being pretty shocked when I heard the details of how it went down and also thinking about the Pearl Jam song Jeremy.
Posted by FlagLake
"Da Ship"
Member since Feb 2006
2342 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 10:51 am to
I was in college and had just returned to my apartment when my roommate told me about it. This was a little unnerving being we were both going to school to become teachers.
Posted by OleWar
Troy H. Middleton Library
Member since Mar 2008
5828 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 10:57 am to
I was paying attention to the hundreds dying in Serbia, instead of the bakers dozen in Colorado.
Posted by TOSOV
Member since Jan 2016
8922 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 10:58 am to
quote:

This event was definitely a life changing experience for most of us.


Being a bit dram if you think that "most" people were effected by it. 90s had issues brought to us by depressing NW music. Heck a HS local kid brought a shotgun to school, and shot himself in front of class. Pearl Jams "Jeremy" was totally "written" about it, so many older kids said...ha!

Lingering effects have been worse. Let all the pussies in this country rise to the top, and stay there.
Posted by Lsupimp
Ersatz Amerika-97.6% phony & fake
Member since Nov 2003
78943 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 11:13 am to
I was coming back from Colorado Springs on I-25 near Castle Rock headed into Denver with my Motorola coworkers. We immediately diverted into the Jeffco Communications Center and listened to it all unfold on the various radio system. The next couple weeks were a blur of sadness and tragedy. I'd never been affected emotionally by any event like that before that point. It was very, very sad for those on the Front Range who had non-stop coverage of the massacre for MONTHS after that, every little detail. It was a different world then and we reacted differently than we would today.
Posted by fallguy_1978
Best States #50
Member since Feb 2018
48751 posts
Posted on 4/20/19 at 11:15 am to
I was a SR at LSU that year. I remember it quite well but don't remember where I was like 9/11.
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