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Twenty years ago, 15 wooden crosses appeared on a hill overlooking Columbine High School, in Littleton, Colorado.
20年前，科羅拉多州利特爾頓市，俯瞰著科倫拜高中的一座小山上出現了15個木制十字架。
It was April 28, 1999, eight days after a pair of students had shot and killed 12 of their classmates and a teacher before killing themselves.
那是1999年4月28日，8天前，兩名學生開槍打死了12名同學和一名老師，然后自殺。
At first, the crosses seemed to be part miracle, part mystery.
起初，十字架似乎一半是奇跡，一半是神秘。
Before long, their creator stepped forward: Greg Zanis, a carpenter from Sugar Grove, Illinois, who had driven them nearly 1,000 miles to Colorado.
不久前，他們的創造者站了出來：格雷格·扎尼斯，一位來自伊利諾伊州休格格羅夫的木匠，驅車近1000英里來到科羅拉多州。
Since Columbine, Zanis has built and delivered more than 26,000 crosses—Stars of David and crescent moons, too—
自科倫拜高中槍擊事件以來，詹尼斯已經向美國各地因暴力、自然災害和其他災難而悲痛的社區
to communities across America grieving in the wake of violence, natural disasters, and other catastrophes.
建造并交付了26,000多個十字架，也建造了大衛之星和新月。
He brought them to Paradise, California, after wildfires wiped out most of the town;
在野火摧毀了大部分城鎮之后，他把他們帶到加州的天堂，
Pittsburgh, where 11 worshippers were killed in a synagogue; Sandy Hook, Connecticut, when 26 children and staff were gunned down in their school;
在匹茲堡，11名禮拜者在猶太教堂被殺；在康涅狄格州桑迪胡克，26名兒童和工作人員在學校被槍殺；
and Las Vegas, where 58 people died while enjoying a music festival.
在拉斯維加斯，58人在享受音樂節期間死亡。
One place Zanis, 68, never expected to plant his crosses was in his own backyard.
有一個地方是68歲的詹尼斯沒想到要放置十字架的地方，這個地方就是他的后院。
On February 15, 2019, he was in his workshop when he heard sirens scream past his window.
2019年2月15日，他正在工作室里，突然聽到窗外傳來警報聲。
He looked out to see dozens of first responders racing down the street.
他看到外面有幾十個第一反應人員沖到街上。
Later that day, he learned that a disgruntled ex-employee had walked into the Henry Pratt manufacturing plant in Aurora, Illinois—
那天晚些時候，他得知一名心懷不滿的前雇員走進了位于伊利諾斯州奧羅拉市的亨利·普拉特制造廠-
just 15 minutes from where Zanis lives—and killed five former coworkers.
那里距離詹尼斯生活的地方只有15分鐘的路程-殺死了五個前同事。
Zanis found himself with the same sickening reaction he'd witnessed in so many towns around the country:
扎尼斯發現自己的反應和他在全國許多城鎮看到的一樣令人作嘔：
How could it happen? "This is home," he told the Chicago Tribune. "It was not supposed to happen here."
怎么會這樣呢？他告訴《芝加哥論壇報》，“這里是我的家，這種事情不應該在這里發生的。”
