20 years later, Unit 1012 will remember and honor Rachel
Scott every year on April 20. She was the first murder victim of the 1999
Columbine High School Massacre. We will also remember the other victims.
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Victims of the Columbine High School
Massacre
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I am not
going to apologize for speaking the name of Jesus... If I have to sacrifice
everything... I will. – Rachel Scott
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SOURCE: http://www.azquotes.com/quote/1224912]
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AUTHOR: Rachel Joy Scott (August
5, 1981 – April 20, 1999) was an American student and the first murder victim
of the Columbine High School massacre,
which claimed the lives of 11 other students and a teacher as well as both
perpetrators.
She has since been the
subject of several books and is the inspiration for Rachel's Challenge, an international school
outreach program and the most popular school assembly program in America. Its
aim is to advocate Scott's belief, based on her life, her journals, and
the contents of a two-page essay penned just a month before her murder entitled
My Ethics; My Codes of Life which advocates her belief in compassion
being "the greatest form of love humans have to offer".
Owing to the fact both
Scott and Anne
Frank died at a young age through the intolerance and hatred of others, and
that both girls had written of their wishes to change the world for the better
through the simple acts of love and kindness, parallels have been drawn by her
uncle, among others, between the journals she wrote in her short lifespan and
Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl.
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Rachel Scott in 1997
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