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Later we heard from him and he was quite traumatized to hear it once again, students put in danger by someone running amuck with a weapon. >> what is the solution if there is one here? it is therapy, counseling, groups of people who have survived similar tragedy? >> its counseling. sam didnt really avail himself to counseling right away. i think theres a tendency and what i learned from doing the story and we report the deaths and injuries, those are easy to quantify, we know how many people wer...

All of a sudden i froze, tears started streaming down my face. >> do you have to have been physically wounded to still be traumatized 15 years later. >> absolutely not. everybody who was part of columbine high school had experienced grief. >> this past year im getting phone calls from graduates in 99 and 2000 saying can you talk to my son or daughter. they are struggling now. >> and joining me now is nbcs lester holt. that is so moving and to see them as adults, i still think of them as children...

>> reporter: sam drunino is a graduate of columbine and he was there on april 20th, 1999, 15 years ago. >> its kind of like a time period, january goes by and february goes by and i get the feeling around march. >> then you fall off a cliff. >> pretty much. its more like hitting a brick wall emotionally. and you can see it coming from a mile away. and its that anticipation of april is that wall coming. >> no one can understand sams inner struggle better than his columbine classmates and principa...

The same thing. with datelines help, sam goes on a journey, goes to virginia tech, he goes to minnesota where another school shooting had happened. he visits these places, jonesboro arkansas and meets with other survivors and they talk out their feelings and many of the shootings happened in late march, early april around the same time. they confront the same sense of dread when spring comes around. hes hoping to finds a way to process and heal. >> we just had the virginia tech anniversa anniver...