Behind her she pulled her two children in a wagon. Thousands visited the makeshift shrine atop the lower of the two hills Wednesday to see the heartrending, typically anonymous messages left for the living. Some come as tourists, taking snapshots, but most seem to leave something behind. His laminated message is that he will pray for the victims as they grow. The joy you must have given.
Families reach the summit and fall together on their knees in prayer.
The ground beneath each cross is strewn with irises, carnations, lillies, daisies, teddy bears, books, poems, posters and rosaries. Some visitors Wednesday were on second and third trips. And some had motives other than consolation. But the woman insisted on putting her message on Eric Harris's cross. At one point, someone snatched the pen from the woman's hand, while someone else went for police.