BIG ROCK, Ill. - A man who erected 15 crosses in Littleton,Colo.,for the families of those who died in the Columbine High Schoolmassacre - only to take them down when they generated controversy -says he's going to raise them again.
Greg Zanis said Monday he has been asked to return to Colorado byseveral people in Littleton, including the families of threevictims.
"I'm going to put 13 (crosses) on one hill, and two on anotherhill," he said, hoping to avoid the controversy that occurred whenheplaced crosses for the two dead gunmen next to those of the 13victims. The crosses for the gunmen were knocked down by the fatherof a shooting victim.Zanis established Crosses for Losses in tribute to his father-in-law, who was fatally shot in 1996. Since that year the Illinois manhas built more than 200 crosses and raised them around the country.In the immediate aftermath of the killings, Zanis built the 15 6-foot crosses, loaded them into his truck and delivered them to ahillin Littleton.What Zanis didn't figure on was that along with grief, there wasthe kind of anger at gunmen Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold that wouldnot allow crosses for them to stand on the same hill with the onesdedicated to the people they killed."I couldn't believe that people were angry and defiled thecrosses," he said Monday.Zanis hopes his new arrangement will help people."It bothered him because he feels like that (a cross) is asymbol of the Lord," said his wife, Susan. "He just felt like Godstill cares about all those kids."
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