The photos below are primarily of the memorial services that were held in the days and weeks that immediately followed the shootings, informal and formal. Many are taken in Clement Park, a park directly across the street from the school where local mourners left hundreds and hundreds of tributes to those who died.
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Clement Park across the street from Columbine High School became home to several impromptu memorials to the dead and the injured.
A rock heart pushed together on Rebel Hill in Clement Park. Before 4-20 this hill was grassy; mourners trampled it away.
Isaiah Shoels' cross
Rachel Scott's cross
Two mourners confront a woman writing derogatory remarks on Dylan's cross
Greg Zanis, crafter of the crosses, deliberately used a different font (letter style) for Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold's crosses to seperate them from their victims. The very presence of the killers' crosses among the victims' outraged many.
Greg Zanis with one of the crosses he built. He was opposed to removing Eric & Dylan's crosses from the hill.
15 crosses in Clement Park
13 crosses in Clement Park -- Greg lost his fight to keep Eric & Dylan's there.
Memorials left for Coach Dave Sanders.
One of the memorial tents at Clement Park after a candle tipped and burned everything inside it.
This paper served as a message memorial for the grieving to write their words of sorrow and hope.
