Columbine survivor Missy Mendo on the tragedy in Uvalde: 'I am here filling out paperwork so my baby can go to school, while other parents in Texas will be burying theirs'
Flowers and tokens laid at a makeshift memorial to 13 victims killed at Columbine High School. Photo: Steve Liss/Getty Images Twenty-three years ago, Missy Mendo was a freshman at Columbine High School when two gunmen killed 12 of her classmates and one teacher.
I stopped doing her paperwork because I have no idea how I’m going to get through that and feel okay to submit it. It will get done because I don’t want to project any kind of fear onto my child. That’s my biggest thing — I don’t want her to ever be afraid. But I had to walk away. I opened the window, and I had to take some breaths of air. I am here filling out paperwork so my baby can go to school, while other parents in Texas will be burying theirs. This shouldn’t be happening.
She’s actually going to be right down the street from Columbine. I know the security people who are in that building, and they are friends of mine. That has really reassured me as far as the safety of the school. One of them is a survivor himself. When we were able to go back to class, there were still large portions of the school that had to be repaired. The library was still there. But the staff at the school made it so insanely calm. They tried as hard as they possibly could to get through every day for themselves and for us. My teachers were so impactful in my life. I graduated and moved away to the East Coast.
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