I remember Kacey showing up for Big Hair Bowling on December 2, 1995 and going absolutely giddy over the fact that her jr. high youth pastor proposed to her small group leader that morning! It was the day Julie and I got engaged and I still have a picture of Kacey with BIG HAIR! She's pictured here with her sister Britney who is on the left at the Rose Parade in 2005.Kacey was shot in the library 10 years ago today and lived. She is my hero. She made it on the front cover of USA Today on April 21, 1999. Two months ago she was featured in Good Housekeeping and last month she was feature in 5280 the magazine to remember the 10 year anniversary. I still remember the huge security guard posted outside her hospital room. N'Sync came to visit her. Colorado Avalanche players stopped by to comfort her. Peter Forsberg gave her a signed jersey! So many things happened so fast.
When I read what transpired that day I can't believe she lived. She's married now, with a beautiful daughter. Repeatedly she has opportunities to look patients in the eye who are facing death and tell them that she not only sympathizes with them, she empathizes with them. She spoke at Virgina Tech two years ago after their shooting took place. I got the privilege to see her last month at her sister's graduation party and she is doing fabulous. What a woman! What a story! What a God she is madly in love with to this day!
Kacey, you are my hero!
I truly believe that Kacey can communicate what Corrie Ten Boom said, "There is no pit that God is not deeper still."
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Thanks for writing about Kacey. This is a beautiful tribute. This morning on another forum, I wrote a little bit about this anniversary. For me, the Columbine shooting is inextricably connected to my memories of my father.
It happened on the week of my dad's birthday -- the first birthday after he died in December of 1998. Because Columbine High School is not even a mile South of my parents' old house, and there are many families in our old church with children at that school, it felt very close and personal.
I love, too, that you quote CTB. When my dad died, someone sent me a book with a Corrie quote in it I have used over and over again since his death: There are moments when the suffering is so deep that one can hardly talk to a person. What a joy it is then to know that the Lord understands.
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