She Said Yes: The Unlikely Martyrdom of Cassie Bernall

by Misty Bernall (Author)

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  Paperback
  2002

  $4.96

  In a perverse celebration of Hitler's birthday, two heavily armed students stormed through a Colorado school on April 20, 1999, killing as many people as they could. Confronting 17-year-old Cassie Bernall, they put a gun to her head and asked: Do you believe in God? She said Yes. The killer laughed and pulled the trigger. Around the world, people hailed Cassie as a modern martyr, but a far more remarkable story has been left untold. Three years earlier, Cassie herself planned to murder a teacher and threatened suicide. In She Said Yes, Cassie's mother breaks her silence to recount the dramatic transformation that led up to her daughter's final heroic stand.

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  Hardcover
  1999

  $3.39

  After the massacre on April 20, 1999 at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, Cassie Bernall's story has fascinated the media as people dub her a martyr and struggle to forge meaning out of a senseless tragedy. Cassie's mother tells the tale of Cassie's complex life up to that decisive moment. It's the story of a young woman who at one point had started down a troubled path similar to that of her killers, a story of tough choices and the war between goodness and evil in every person.