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The Other Victims

Signs of support hang outside the dark houses of the gunmen's families, as the handful of people who will speak about the Klebolds and Harrises rally to their defense.

"They seemed like normal, nice people," said Debbie Wilde, who lived three doors away from the Harrises in Littleton. "And they never caused any problems over there."

At the hair salon where Dylan's mother Susan Klebold went this week, employees say she is in a state of shock.

"She expressed that 'I don't even know that boy. I don't know who it is that they're talking about. I can't stand to listen to it'," said a salon worker.

Before moving to Littleton, Eric Harris' family lived here at the Plattsburgh air force base in upstate New York, where old friends are as baffled and saddened as new ones.

"I remember his dad, very personable, very smart," said Terry Condo, who got to know Eric Harris' father when he coached Eric and his own son, Mike, in little league six years ago. Wayne Harris came to every game and even attended practices, sometimes walking from the Air Force base, where he was a pilot, to the local ball field to root his son on.

"He listened to what you said," remembered Condo. "And just genuinely wanted to help and do what he could to make the whole experience positive for his son."

Condo is concerned that there will be a rush to assign blame, making a bad situation even worse.

"They're going to start looking inward and thinking 'where did we go wrong, what could we have done differently?' And that's very sad," he said.

The parents of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold are, after all, four additional victims, whose lives are now destroyed.

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