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April 17, 2016

How the Columbine Memorial Missed an Opportunity We Should Have Seized

by Harriet F. Senie

Wouldn't we honor the dead (and their families) more by building memorials that also provide a safe place to consider the causes and implications of the events that cost them their lives?