| Location | Colorado |
| Age | 17 years |
| Cause of Death | Murder |
| Date of Birth | 03/03/1982 |
| Date of Death | 20/04/1999 |
| Visitors | 259 since 25/10/2009 |
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The Columbine High School massacre occurred on Tuesday, April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in
Columbine, an unincorporated area in Jefferson County, Colorado, United States, near Denver and
Littleton. Two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, embarked on a massacre, killing 12 students
and one teacher. An additional 21 students and other persons were injured while attempting to
escape. The pair then committed suicide. In addition, it is the fourth-deadliest school massacre in
United States history, after the 1927 Bath School disaster, 2007 Virginia Tech massacre and the 1966
University of Texas massacre, and the deadliest for an American high school.
(Sasha Cohen has had the nerve to create a memorial for these killers on THIS site. Please tell her
that we want to remember the victims we love, not their killers. They get enough publicity already.
This site is for angels, let's keep it that way.)
Corey DePooter was a former wrestler who loved to hike, golf, hunt, and fish. He loved wrestling,
golf and in-line skating, but fishing was his passion. He had recently taken a maintenance job at a
golf club to save up to buy a fishing boat with a friend. Someone Corey used to fish with said: "It
was the times we didn't do well that his personality really shined." Another friend said of him:
"When you're going fishing or camping, I know he's going to be there, watching and making sure
you're doing everything right.
He's described as an all-American kid who put schoolwork above everything else: He had his wisdom
teeth removed that year and was upset that the procedure had forced him to miss school. He was
hiding under a table near the windows with his best friend Stephen "Austin" Eubanks and surviving
victim Jennifer Doyle when the shooters entered the library. While his friend Austin watched, Dylan
Klebold aimed his semi-automatic at Corey and pulled the trigger, killing him almost instantly.
Austin Eubanks later said about Corey: "People said he was the kind of guy people like to be around.
I know I sure did. Corey was always able to pick our spirits up in a gloomy situation."
Corey died in the library from multiple gunshot wounds to the neck, chest and left arm. His funeral
was held at Trinity Christian Center. Soon after his death his grandmother, Fern Hamilton, contacted
the Marine Corps about holding some sort of ceremony for Corey because he'd always wanted to become
a Marine. On May 3, 2000, Corey was granted that dream during a ceremony at his gravesite in Chapel
Hill Memorial Gardens in Littleton, Colorado, where he was made an honorary Marine.
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See through the window,
Look at the light,
Smell the sweet flowers,
See the sky bright,
Shed not the tears,
As you feel I have gone,
Love never leaves,
And my spirit lives on.
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I PROMISE I WILL HEAR…..
Don't think of me as dead and gone
Please understand I have just moved on
God took my hand
When you thought I had died
And led me over to the other side.
There's a better life
Than the one we know
And to it one day we all must go
No more pain, hardship,
Or times of misery
Instead there's all our loved ones
As happy as can be.
You may not see me for a little while
Hear me laugh or see me smile
But I promise you with all my heart
From the ones I love I will never part.
I will always be with you,
However far you walk
I will always listen,
When you feel you need to talk
So when you are saddened
Or driven to despair
Take comfort from the knowledge
That I am always there.
One day soon I will share with you
The happiness I have found
And you will see life doesn't end
Six feet beneath the ground
Forget about graveside visits
And fresh flowers every day
A yearly verse in the papers
Is surely not the way
When there is something you want to say
Or you wish that I was near
Just talk to me like you always did
I promise I will hear.
Thoughts Today, Memories Forever
If I should go tomorrow
It would never be goodbye,
For I have left my heart with you,
So don't you ever cry.
The love that's deep within me,
Shall reach you from the stars,
You'll feel it from the heavens,
And it will heal the scars.
Night Night Sweet Angel xxx
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┊ ┊┊ ★GOODNIGHT ANGEL★
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┊ ★sleep tight★
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★Sweet dreams★
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For You Corey
︽☆︽ TIME TO FOLD YOUR ANGEL WINGS ︽☆︽
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.............((............ A ray of sunshine came & went
.............) \........... A beautiful treasure only lent
............( , ).......... A prayer
.........._ `|'_......... A tear
...........| () ||........ A memory so dear
...........|.....||....... Each day of our lives
...........|.....||........We wish you were here
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︽☆︽ SWEET ANGEL ︽☆︽ SWEET DREAMS ︽☆︽
For Corey
Let me go back from the traveled road
Away from crowds pushing,
To a quiet hill where the woods are still,
Serene 'neath a clean, blue sky.
-- poem read at Corey's funeral
Friends of Mine
Columbine, flower bloom, tenderly I sing to you.
Columbine, roseblood red, heartbreak overflow my head.
Columbine, flower bloom.
Columbine there's hope for you.
Columbine, friend of mine.
To your gain, on the mark.
With your love, love again.
Comfort peace and sweet release come from you.
Where, it's true, I hide myself in you.
Can you still hear raging guns ending dreams of precious ones.
In God' son, hope will come, his red stain will take our pain.
Columbine, friend of mine.
Peace will come to you in time.
Columbine, friend of mine.
Turn a page, to your gain.
Keep your heart on the mark.
Comfort us with your love.
Love again.
Christ of grace attend this place we look to you.
Honor you.
Fix you in our view.
Columbine, flower bloom.
Tenderly I sing to you.
Columbine, roseblood red, heartbreak overflows my head.
Columbine, friend of mine.
Peace will come to you in time.
Columbine, friend of mine.
Performed by Jonathan and Stephen Cohen
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