[Katie Hans]

I saw something about that on the news. An investigator was saying that there was a sign in the schoolhouse that said something along the lines of "visitors give us joy", which makes the whole situation even sadder.

I can't even begin to imagine how scared the girls were - not to mention offering to be shot so that the other girls would be spared. I can't imagine how hard that decision would be, sacrificing yourself at that age with your entire life ahead of you, so that someone else can live. It seems that nearly everyone else these days are so willing to take someone else's life so that they can continue theirs - it's not very often you see things happen the opposite way. It kind of makes me feel guilty about dwelling so much on personal issues when one choice could change everything.

Apparently some of the families whose girls were killed invited the family of the man who shot them to mourn with them at the funeral. That's what I found inspiring. That a family so traumatized would still be able to reach out to another family suffering a loss, even if the member of the other family was what caused everyone's reason for sadness.