Saturday, April 15, 2000
Painful lessons learned
Columbine teens recount the tragedy
BY Randy McNutt
The Cincinnati Enquirer
LEBANON — Last year's massacre at Columbine High School is to the present generation what John F. Kennedy's assassination is to another, a Littleton, Colo., resident told students at Warren County Career Center on Friday.
“We remember what we were doing at the time of the shootings,” said Scott Parks, 19. “I was standing in line at Safeway, trying to decide what kind of candy bar to buy. A guy said something about (violence). I said, "Dude, please, I'm trying to make a decision here.' But later, it all hit me.”
On April 20, 1999, two teen-age students blasted their way through the school in Littleton, and ended up among 15 who were dead when the massacre ended.
Mr. Parks, who did not attend Columbine but knew students who did, is a part of the group Revival Generation, which also spoke Friday at Kings High School.
He said he has experienced terrible heartache since the shootings. “But I came out of it,” he said. “I've learned from this to share things with others. My faith ... and my friends helped me through it.”
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