Where once thousands of flowers, religious icons, banners, grieving visitors and journalists tumbled together, there was no clue of what had happened nearly a year ago. But inside Columbine High School, the scene of the massacre of 12 students and a teacher by two hate-filled teen gunmen, officials were guiding journalists on a tour. But next week we will insist. We want to keep the tourists out. For example, she had to point out where the killers entered the building and where bodies were found outside.
Lockers cover the wall where double doors once opened on the library, the main killing field.
The library is closed forever. White butcher paper covers the windows. A temporary facility has been set up outside the school in a modular structure. A new library and atrium will be constructed outside the main building in full view of the snowy mountain peaks. Construction workers, donating their time, went through the building covering every single bullet hole.