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Monday, April 26, 1999 Shooting s by Elisabeth Wright Associated Press LITTLETON, Colo. ? Weeks, maybe months from now, little moments will remind them of what two misfit boys armed with very adult weapons stole from them. A Kansas farmer won't harvest wheat with his grandson for the first summer in 12 years. A best friend won't be buying a fishing boat with his buddy. Empty chairs in Bible study. Lighter grocery sacks and smaller laundry piles. Unfinished plays and shuttered piano keyboards. Littleton, natior COLORADO continued from page 1 For some, after absorbing continuous media coverage since Tuesday, it was a wrenching experience just to walk a few blocks from the heavily damaged high school. Tim and Donna Weitzel drove 250 miles from Grand Junction to attend. Thev left their children, ages 11,5 and 3, at home on Colorado's West I V\lyjL\_ ? urvivors rea Remove one person from the fabric of this world, and it leaves a gap. Re ?4 can V/How does he\ V afford these W f great dates? \ # \_..hmmm, maybe he | j move 15, and the void is enormous. But it is in the discovery of the little absences ? the small holes ? that heartbreak awaits the friends and families of the victims of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. For Columbine football coach Andy Lowry, it might be next August when it's time to hand lineman Matt Kechter his extra-large uniform. For Kechter's kid brother, it might be this week, when he steps off the school bus and finds nobody there to shoot hoops in the driveway. "Matt always waited by the mailbox for his little brother to come home i continue to mou ern Slope. Amid Littleton's strip malls and subdivisions, the Weitzels looked a little out of place wearing cowboy hats and ranching coveralls. They said they didn't know any students at Columbine or their families, but their reaction to the violence was common to parents everywhere.'Tt's something that can help us personally by coming and seeing and sharing the hurt and the pain," Ne \ TRAGEDY IN < lize what th from school," said Greg Barnes, a sophomore basketball player. "He was the La most innocent person I knew." For the parents of Steven Curnow, fa there will be a hollowness May 19, when the latest installment of the "Star Wars" ^ .1 -,i in saga is 10 open in movie tneaiers witn inescapable hype. Curnow, 14, wanted to become a Navy top gun and pilot his own plane. But in a recliner armed with a remote m control, he was transported to "Star ^1 War's" mythical world "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away." re They could hear their son rewind- ai ing the trilogy's videos and precisely wl mimicking the characters' dialogue. W rn deaths ofColur Weitzel said as his wife hugged him. co: "It's just something that struck my fie heart.'The service shifts the physical and emotional focus away from the P^' school, where classmates Eric Harris VI and Dylan Klebold killed 12 studepts ^ and one teacher before committing sui- jjj, cide.Deputies suspended their investi- ly gation and media briefings for the day, th w donors earn up to 215 nrr I , nonth! A mid earn you $65! / id heart patients who. \ ve products made from plasma of our donors. naIL < The Quality Source ABI BfoMedlcal Center sembly St., Columbia SC 29201 m 254-2280 S X I COLORADO ey've lost Obi-Wan Kenobi: "Use the force, ike." Darth Vader: "I find your lack of ith... disturbing." For Michelle Oetter, it will come on ay 1. She had looked forward to wearg her new silver drop earrings and atching twisty necklace to the prom Ponderosa High School. In her dreams, she danced with her lyfriend, John Tomlin. "He treated e like I was queen of the world," she urted through tears. Instead, somebody will return his nted tux ? black with a white vest id silver trim to match her jewelry ? hile his remains return to his native isconsin. nbine students ncentrating instead on directing traf: for the service. Police found a diary detailing the it over the past year, as well as bombaking materials and weapons in plain ew in the bedroom of one of the ad suspects. Later Sunday, the fam2s of victims Daniel Mauser and KelFleming planned a joint funeral for eir children. L <fSBT\ Congratul *We. Li ||?l|u Shannon Ashl &???/ Angie Beylotl Colleen Boysi Heather Butsl< hw?Claudia Cappi !(??)) 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I have finished revolutionizing the neoeupkoric infliction of my internal terror. Your children who have ridaculed (sic) me, who have chosen not to accept me, who have treated me like lam not worth their ' time are dead. THEY ARE (expletive) DEAD. Surely you will try to blame it on the clothes I wear, the music I listen to, or the way I choose to present myself? but no. Do not hide behind my choices. 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This event is paid Page 3 ricide note in Harris as a result of YOUR CHOICES. Parents and Teachers, YOU (expletive) UP. You have taught these kids to be gears and sheep. To think and act like those who came before them, to not accept what is different. YOU ARE IN THE WRONG. I may have taken their lives and my own ? but it was your doing. Teachers, Parents, LET THIS MASSACRE BE ON YOUR SHOULDERS UNTIL THE DAY YOU DIE. Am I insane? Maybe. Is it my fault? No. I did not choose this life, but I have indeed chosen to exit it. You may think the horror ends with the bullet in my head ?but you wouldn't be so lucky. All that I can leave you with to decipher what more extensive death is to come is "12Skizto."You have until April 26th. Goodbye. 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