Mark Taylor, shot in the 1999 tragedy, has a new book out and hopes to become a pastor.
By Howard Pankratz
Denver Post Staff Writer
POSTED: 12/06/2006 01:00:00 AM MST
Despite the trauma and years that have passed, Mark Taylor still vividly remembers the day he was shot as many as 13 times outside Columbine High School. On Tuesday, Taylor recalled standing outside the school, enjoying a nice spring day with friends when a bullet slammed into his leg.
In the next second, he saw a bullet slam into the face of a friend, and then he felt several bullets rip into his own chest.”I was stunned,” he said. “I wasn’t quite sure what had happened. I could see out of the side of my eyes the gunmen go over and shoot Rachel Scott.”Taylor wants to be a pastor.
And a book he’s written has spiritual overtones. It’s called “I Asked, God Answered … a Columbine miracle.”
Taylor, now 22, recounts the horror of that day and a recovery that has required multiple surgeries, an initial hospital stay of two months and the anguish of having tubes thrust down his throat and tubes placed in his side. ”The horror of what I went through in the hospital, I can’t even put in words,” said Taylor, who was shot by Eric Harris on April 20, 1999.
But the book is about forgiveness. He has forgiven shooters Harris and Dylan Klebold and their families. He has talked to gang members and Vietnam veterans about forgiveness. He said he especially remembers the Vietnam Vets who have spent 30 years blaming the government for the friends they lost. Some have thanked him for the message. ”After hearing me on forgiveness and healing, it was able to help them,” he said.
Staff writer Howard Pankratz can be reached at 303-954-1939 or hpankratz@denverpost.com.
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Combined Petition for Appointment of Temporary Guardian AND PERMANENT GUARDIAN
Superior Court of Arizona
County of MaricopaPB2011-000036
IN THE MATTER OF
MARK TAYLOR,
An Incapacitated Person.
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1700 West Washington
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