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Rachel Joy Scott (August 5, 1981 – April 20, 1999) was an American student and the first murder victim of the Columbine High School massacre, which claimed the lives of 12 students and a teacher, as well as both perpetrators. She has since been the subject of several books and is the inspiration for Rachel's Challenge, a nationwide school outreach program for the prevention of teen violence, based on her life and writings. ==Background== Rachel Joy Scott was born on August 5, 1981, in Denver, the third of five children of Darrell Scott and Beth Nimmo . Her older sisters are Bethanee and Dana and her two younger brothers are Craig and Mike . Her father had formerly pastored a church in Lakewood, Colorado. Rachel's parents divorced in 1989, but maintained a cordial relationship to one another. The following year, Beth and the children moved to Littleton, Colorado, where she remarried in 1995.〔 Darrell worked as a sales manager for a large food company in Denver. Darrell and Beth had joint custody of the children.〔''Rachel's Tears'', p. 32.〕 As a child, Rachel attended Dutch Creek Elementary School, and subsequently Ken Caryl Middle School. Coincidentally, she knew Dylan Klebold from a class they shared in 1998 and Dylan and she were members of Columbine's theater production club. Dylan ran audio for a talent show a month and half before where Rachel performed a mime act to the song "Watch the Lamb." (The name Rachel means "Little Female Lamb.") Rachel's younger brother, Craig, was in the school library during the shooting. Ten students were killed in the library including two of Craig's friends, Isaiah Shoels and Matthew Kechter. Craig helped pick up an injured girl and rallied students to safety. Two days later he appeared on the morning television broadcast of the ''Today Show'' with Isaiah's father in an interview in which anchorwoman Katie Couric stated it was "one of her most memorable and even spiritual experiences she had ever had." Rachel's parents also appeared on a show with Maria Shriver immediately after sharing on their personal choice of forgiveness and the principle of it. At the time of her death, the 17-year-old Columbine High School junior was an aspiring writer and actress with summer plans to visit Botswana on a trip to help build homes. Two weeks prior to the shooting, she had a lead role as an alternative character with sharp wit and kind heart. The play was titled "Smoke in the Room" for which Dylan ran the spotlight. Described as a very devout Christian by her mother, she was active at youth group and a leader in a Bible study group called NaCl (the chemical formula for sodium chloride, better known as "table salt"). She attended a youth group called "Breakthrough" at Orchard Road Christian Center in Greenwood Village, Colorado. According to friends, she often wore a variety of hats and clothes showing a colorful personality. She left behind six diaries along with journals with friends of shared experiences and encouraging notes. Many writings were addressed to God. On the cover of one journal she had with her the day of the shooting (into which a bullet was lodged) she wrote "I write not for the sake of glory. Not for the sake of fame. Not of the sake of success. But for the sake of my soul..." In other writings there was a theme of "reaching the unreached" through acts of kindness and compassion. One month before her death, Rachel wrote a school essay stating: “I have this theory that if one person can go out of their way to show compassion then it will start a chain reaction of the same.” Similarities have been noted between the journal Rachel kept and Anne Frank's famous diary. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rachel Scott」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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