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He works retail to pay the bills, but stays involved with sound projects and is currently doing postproduction audio on a film. Columbine is now part of pop culture. After arriving in town April 18, Mr. I usually just try to think about the people that died. I think about what happened. Castaldo noted that the students have moved forward with their lives and so has he. Columbine was no different. And as the public mourning began to fade and the FBI conducted its investigation, it started to become clear that the story about Bernall, in particular, was probably falsely reported.

It was likely another girl entirely, Val Schnurr, who told Klebold — not Harris — that she believed in God before he shot her in the school library. Schnurr survived. Bernall was also in the library, though further from Klebold, and Harris did find her.

The eyewitness accounts seemed to point to the fact that while Bernall was tragically murdered, the martyrdom story was built on false evidence. However, who actually said what in the library on April 20 became a point of major dispute, as Hanna Rosin reported in the Washington Post on October 14, And it seemed unlikely that the mythology would be changed by any emerging facts.

As Rosin wrote:. Despite the nagging existence of Val Schnurr and Misty Bernall's best efforts to humanize her daughter, the Cassie myth has taken root. Because at this point, it's moved far beyond Cassie. To illustrate how far it has gone, he tells a story of traveling to a remote church in Sudan a few months after the shooting.

The congregation's first request was that he tell the story of Saint Cassie. It's the story they heard first, and circulated for six months uncontested. You can say it didn't happen that way, but the church won't accept it.

To the church, Cassie will always say yes, period. Books and songs about Cassie Bernall and Rachel Scott circulated widely — especially among teenagers in suburban churches, as I and many others can personally attest. They prompted not just teenage soul searching but also that other teenage phenomenon: aspiration.

When I told one of my friends, he said, 'That's awesome. I wish it could happen to me. That might sound horrifying. But for many Christian teenagers in the late s and early s, it made a strange kind of sense. Our live and digitally-delivered programs provide social-emotional learning and mental health content that brings connection, healing and hope. We help reduce bullying and school violence, and avert suicides, by creating a student-led culture of respect and kindness.

To learn more about our programs, click here. Skip to content Menu. Restoring Hope. Taking action. By Sheba R. Wheeler The Denver Post. Courtesy of Columbine High School.