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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? >> it's counseling. sam didn't really avail himself to counseling right away. i think there's 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 were shot and how many were hurt, we kind of lose sight of the other people in these horrific situat...

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 i'm 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 nbc's lester holt. that is so moving and to see them as adults, i still think of them as children. >> we all remember those pictures of them flooding out of the school and the s.w.a.t. teams, wh...

>> reporter: sam drunino is a graduate of columbine and he was there on april 20th, 1999, 15 years ago. >> it's 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. it's more like hitting a brick wall emotionally. and you can see it coming from a mile away. and it's that anticipation of april is that wall coming. >> no one can understand sam's inner struggle better than his columbine classmates and principal, frank deankle is. >> frank is still processing what happened and still having difficulties. i...

The same thing. with dateline's 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. he's hoping to finds a way to process and heal. >> we just had the virginia tech anniversa anniversary, it's the same time of year and horrible franklin regional high school incident, the stabbing...