More than a quarter century after a bullet ripped through her teenage body, Anne Marie Hochhalter died last week. Paralyzed and subject to chronic pain after the 1999 Columbine school shooting, through the rest of her life she set an example of selflessness and forgiveness.
I’m a Colorado native and JeffCo Public Schools graduate, and Columbine represents a touchstone moment in my life. It went from being a rival high school to a national shibboleth for American school shootings. Each subsequent mass shooting echoing back to this first, shocking incident.
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