Editing Columbine High School massacre (section)

===Memorials===
{{See also|Columbine Memorial}}
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Many impromptu memorials were created after the massacre, including victims Rachel Scott's car and John Tomlin's truck.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-may-06-mn-34535-story.html |title=Shrine and Its Removal Are Balms to Columbine |date=May 6, 1999 |work=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>

In 2000, youth advocate [[Melissa Helmbrecht]] organized a remembrance event in Denver featuring two surviving students, called "A Call to Hope".<ref>{{cite news |first=Trent |last=Seibert |url=http://extras.denverpost.com/news/shot041200a.htm |title=Young leaders to rally around volunteerism |work=[[The Denver Post]] |date=April 12, 2000 |access-date=April 20, 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514003742/http://extras.denverpost.com/news/shot041200a.htm |archive-date=May 14, 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref> The library where most of the massacre took place was removed and replaced with an atrium. In 2001, a new library, the HOPE memorial library, was built next to the west entrance.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/10/us/new-library-at-columbine-draws-praise-at-unveiling.html |title=ew Library at Columbine Draws Praise at Unveiling |newspaper=The New York Times |date=June 10, 2001}}</ref>

On February 26, 2004, thousands of pieces of evidence from the massacre were put on display at the Jefferson County fairgrounds in [[Golden, Colorado|Golden]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Kelly |first=David |date=February 26, 2004 |title=The Horrors of Columbine Are Laid Bare in Evidence |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-feb-26-na-columbine26-story.html |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20200305134817/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-feb-26-na-columbine26-story.html |archive-date=5 March 2020 |access-date=24 February 2025 |website=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref>

A permanent memorial "to honor and remember the victims of the April 20, 1999, shootings at Columbine High School" began planning in June 1999, and was dedicated on September 21, 2007, in Clement Park.<ref>{{Cite web |date=21 September 2007 |title='This place is about remembrance:' Columbine memorial opens |url=https://www.denverpost.com/2007/09/21/this-place-is-about-remembrance-columbine-memorial-opens/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20170424194709/https://www.denverpost.com/2007/09/21/this-place-is-about-remembrance-columbine-memorial-opens/ |archive-date=24 April 2017 |access-date=12 January 2022 |website=[[The Denver Post]] |language=en-US |agency=[[Associated Press]]}}</ref> The memorial fund raised $1.5&nbsp;million in donations over eight years of planning. Designing took three and a half years and included feedback from victims' families, survivors, the high school's students and staff, and the community.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Johnson |first1=Kirk |last2=Kelley |first2=Katie |date=2006-06-17 |title=A Memorial at Last for Columbine Killings |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/17/us/17columbine.html |access-date=2022-01-12 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Columbine Memorial&nbsp;—Overview |publisher=The Foothills Foundation |url=http://www.columbinememorial.org/Overview.asp |access-date=May 6, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080430163123/http://www.columbinememorial.org/Overview.asp |archive-date=April 30, 2008}}</ref>

Soon after the massacre, music students at [[University of Colorado Boulder|CU Boulder]] raised money to [[Commission (art)|commission]] a piece of music to honor Columbine. The university band turned to [[Frank Ticheli]], who responded by composing the [[Concert band|wind ensemble]] work ''An American Elegy''. The following year, the Columbine band premiered the piece at CU Boulder's [[Macky Auditorium|concert hall]]. {{as of|2019}}, Ticheli's sheet music publisher estimates ''An American Elegy'' has been performed 10,000 times.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Walker |first1=Karla |date=19 April 2019 |title='An American Elegy,' Composed In Columbine's Wake, Continues To Heal |url=https://www.cpr.org/podcast-episode/an-american-elegy-composed-in-columbines-wake-continues-to-heal/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20190702134352/https://www.cpr.org/podcast-episode/an-american-elegy-composed-in-columbines-wake-continues-to-heal/ |archive-date=2 July 2019 |access-date=8 September 2019 |website=[[Colorado Public Radio]]}}</ref>