This week's Decent Fucking Human is Heidi Johnson. Her fucked up story took place in the school library during the Columbine massacre. Topics in this episode include murder, school shootings, and suicide.
On April 20, 1999, two students walked into Columbine High School and changed this country forever. They murdered thirteen people - including 12 students and a teacher - and wounded twenty-one others. Ten of the victims who lost their lives were in the library. So was Heidi.
Heidi was a sophomore with sophomore problems. She was going through a weird friend transition and liked to spend her lunch in the library. She had a great view of the mountains from the library and enjoyed the solitude. When she heard a commotion outside, she brushed it off. It was senior prank season, and during those days nobody expected a mass shooting at a school. Even after a teacher ran into the library yelling about a kid getting shot and telling everyone to get under a table, she still couldn’t comprehend what was happening.
From her vantage point, she could see the shooters enter the library. It was almost cinematic. It was dark and smokey, and she could see shells falling to the floor. She heard them talk about the bombs they were planning to detonate, and heard them telling everyone that they didn’t need to worry because they’d all be dead soon. Too many did die, but Heidi was not one of them.
Heidi is an incredible woman, a survivor, and a Decent Fucking Human. Go ahead and give this one a listen.
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