Posted on November 15, 2019
马克·阿奇博尔德，科西加纳每日太阳报
皇冠博彩 hosted Crystal Miller, a Columbine shooting survivor, Wednesday at the Cook Center. She urged attendees to embrace and appreciate hope, during her talk on the Corsicana campus.
“If I could have known what was to happen at Columbine that day I would’ve avoided it all together,” Miller said. “But by doing so I would have missed the ways that it has shaped and changed me over the years.”
The 36-year-old author and speaker told attendees, which included students from Corsicana Independent School District, that life defining moments present a choice about how someone responds to challenges.
米勒鼓励每个人都要从希望出发，为他人而活。
“Hope shines brighter and more vibrantly against a backdrop of a life that is charred, broken or scarred,” she said.
Faye Davis with 皇冠博彩 Director of 皇冠博彩 said she loved the message of hope.
“我希望我们的学生学会克服他们所经历的一切，勇往直前。”
戴维斯说，让克里斯托出来分享她的故事很重要。
Miller recounted the events of April 20, 1999, when two Columbine students killed 13 people, injuring 24, before killing themselves. Miller was in the library when the shooting began, the scene of the greatest number of casualties. She hid under a table with two friends.
“Our table was the only table in that entire room where someone wasn’t injured or killed.”
Miller said she accepted that she was going to die, praying, and recalling family and friends.
米勒说：“我等待着那种剧痛，等待着死亡，但什么都没有发生。”
米勒和她的朋友们从图书馆二楼的窗户爬了出来。 虽然安全了，但她意识到她的生活再也不会和以前一样了。
Miller told the crowd that she suffered with survivor’s guilt, feeling badly that she had the opportunity to carry on when so many didn’t.
二十年后，米勒说，虽然疼痛很重要，但它不应该定义一个人。
“希望有能力重新定义未来。”
来源: 科西加纳每日太阳报