It's hard to believe it's been 10 years since "Colombine"

They weren't all the bad things people thought, or were they?

Those two teenage kids who murdered 13 people and then killed themselves at suburban Denver's Columbine High School 10 years ago next week weren't in the "Trenchcoat Mafia," disaffected videogamers who wore cowboy dusters.

They managed to divide a country. Divide the country based on how everyone felt about it. At the same time they united North America and I am sure several other parts of the free world by sparking a huge debate over the issue of the real criminals...the bullies.

Strange considering records now shows Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold hadn't been bullied — quite the opposite, they had bragged about picking on freshmen and "fags."



Their acts served notice to schools the world over to be on the look out for enemy lists, lists of people mainly students that weaker kids had had enough of. Again an interesting twist seeing as the enemies on their list had graduated from Columbine a year earlier.

More misinformation at the time was that Harris and Klebold weren't on antidepressant medication and didn't target specific students, they shot first come, first dead. That story about a student being shot in the head after she said she believed in God? Never happened, the FBI now admits. I am shocked they admitted it at all.

A decade after Harris and Klebold made Columbine a black mark in recent history we are learning that much of what the public has been told about the shootings is wrong.

Truth is the kids wanted to go out in a blaze of glory via a bomb. A bomb that Harris built. A bomb that didn't work.

So whom did they want to kill?

Everyone — including friends.

What's now beyond dispute — largely from the killers' journals, which have been released over the past few years, is this: Harris and Klebold killed 13 and wounded 24, but they had hoped to kill thousands.

Anyway we slice it, they will go down in History as the Colombine kids.

Amazingly enough, I like most people remember the name Colombine. I don't remember their names. That's how it should be, remove their names from the record books, remember Colombine and the innocent lives lost.

Forget their names, they don't deserve the recognition. They deserve what they got.

Death.