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"The Columbine High School massacre occurred April 20, 1999, and is the deadliest school shooting America has ever seen. On that day, two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold went on a killing spree that took the lives of 12 students and one teacher. The boys injured 21 other students before taking their own lives. In the decade that has followed, the parents of the young killers have said little about the event that stunned the nation. Now in a revealing first-person essay, Susan Klebold, Dylan&amp;#x27;s mother, breaks her silence.On April 20, 1999, I was a senior at Wayne Valley High School. Typical mornings involved me spending way too much time in the bathroom getting ready and telling Uncle Bri to &amp;quot;hurry up&amp;quot; as I bounded down the stairs and out the front door for my car. My parents would yell, &amp;quot;Bye, Chris!&amp;quot; On that day, like me, Dylan bounded down the stairs. Susan writes in the November issue of O, The Oprah Magazine that she was surprised her son was up before he had to be: &amp;quot;Wondering why he was in such a hurry when he could have slept another 20 minutes, I poked my head out of the bedroom. &amp;#x27;Dyl?&amp;#x27; All he said was &amp;#x27;Bye.&amp;#x27; The front door slammed, and his car sped down the driveway. His voice had sounded sharp...I had no idea I had just heard his voice for the last time.&amp;quot; Back in New Jersey, I was home eating lunch because seniors were allowed to leave school grounds during lunch period. For whatever reason, I chose to go home alone, instead of the bagel or pizza place with my friends. I was eating a ham sandwich and watching the horror unfold on channel 4. When news broke of the massacre at Columbine, Susan, like every, single parent who had a child in that school panicked, wondering if her son was OK. When she found out the deaths and destruction were at her son&amp;#x27;s hands, she couldn&amp;#x27;t believe it. Many have argued that it was impossible that Susan and the parents of Eric Harris had no idea of their sons&amp;#x27; intentions or own personal struggles (despite that Harris was taking prescribed antidepressants), but Susan says she had &amp;quot;no inkling&amp;quot; and it wasn&amp;#x27;t until she paged through her son&amp;#x27;s journals that she truly understood &amp;quot;the battle Dylan was waging in his mind.&amp;quot; Susan writes, &amp;quot;For the rest of my life I will be haunted by the horror Dylan caused...Dylan changed everything I believed about myself, about God, about family, about love.&amp;quot; I am moved by this writing--it is true and speaks not only honestly, but innocently about a mother&amp;#x27;s grief. See, I think the Klebold and Harris parents are also victims because they must live in the wake of their kids&amp;#x27; destruction--and aren&amp;#x27;t we as parents supposed to rear our children, help them grow into sound young adults? Can you imagine the guilt they live with? I&amp;#x27;m JD&amp;#x27;s mom--that&amp;#x27;s my first job on this Earth now. My fancy Glamour and Broadway Books life is secondary and has been since JD was born. I&amp;#x27;m not writing this to say I am a better parent than Susan (no, not at all!), I am writing it because parenting is a heavy, unforgiving, glorious, wonderful job to have and it&amp;#x27;s hard. When something goes wrong at your job outside of the home you can pin it to XYZ, but when something goes down with one of your kids, it&amp;#x27;s the parent that is left to pick up the pieces and make sense out of nonsense. Susan was the mother of a boy who killed his classmates. What an incredible burden for her to bear, regardless of the fact that she maintains she was unaware of his intentions and misery. In the aftermath of the Columbine shootings, families of the victims filed lawsuits against the Klebold and Harris families. In 2007 the judge ordered that depositions given were sealed following an out of court settlement. Were the families of the victims right to file lawsuits against the parents? Do you believe the parents should be held accountable for the actions of their children on that horrible day? Where were you when the Columbine massacre took place and what do you remember about that day? *** More Ways To Get Glamour You could win $50,000 just for registering for or logging in to Glamour.com! Sign up for Glamour.com&amp;#x27;s Style Tips of the Week and Beauty Tip of the Day newsletters! Add Glamour to your iGoogle homepage. Follow Storked! on Twitter"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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