赞美母亲的英文演讲稿.docx

赞美母亲的英文演讲稿 第 PAGE \* Arabic 4 页 赞美母亲的英文演讲稿 Columbine parents praise essay by mom of shooter DENVER — Parents and survivors of the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School are saying good things about an essay released Tuesday by the mother of shooter Dylan Klebold. Susan Klebold made the most detailed public remarks by any parent of the two Columbine killers in an essay published in O, The Oprah Magazine. She said in the essay she had “no inkling” her son was suicidal or depressed. The essay sparked strong emotions for Connie Michalik, whose son, Richard Castaldo, was shot and partially paralyzed in the rampage. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris killed 12 students and a teacher and wounded 23 others before killing themselves. The shooters’ parents have said little in public since the massacre. They gave depositions in a lawsuit filed by victims’ families, but a judge in 2007 ordered those depositions sealed for 20 years after the case was settled out of court. Survivors and their families have been left wondering about the boys’ parents in the decade since the shootings. “You know, I always wondered how she felt and what she went through. ‘Cause I know I went through a living hell, and I was always sure she did, too,” Michalik told The Associated Press. Michalik, who has never met Susan Klebold, said reading the essay answered some of her questions about the Klebold family. “I applaud her for the courage to talk about this,” Michalik said Tuesday. In the essay, Susan Klebold described the day of the shooting. She at first feared Dylan had been shot at school, not that he was one of the perpetrators. Susan Klebold said the family was evacuated from their home the afternoon of the massacre because authorities feared even Dylan’s residence may have been rigged to explode. Still, she said, it took months for relatives to accept that the quiet boy who loved origami and Legos was to blame for the violence. “We didn’t know that he and Eric had assembled an arsenal of explos