To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (552798 ) 3/2/2010 8:22:22 PM From: Brumar89 Read Replies (1) | Respond to In a hallway leading to the 19-year-old’s bedroom, there is a picture of him graduating with honors from Van High School, where he was a state champion in debate, along with his framed Eagle Scout badge. He built a picnic area for a local church as his final scouting project. That good deed came after he had gone on several summer missions for his church to build housing for the poor. He also posted a quotation from Friedrich Nietzsche stating that remorse for wrongdoing was useless: “Never give way to remorse, but immediately say to yourself: That would merely mean adding a second stupidity to the first.” had begun to question his beliefs because “everything was going sour for him” since he dropped out of college. Mr. Bourque had started to experiment with marijuana there , Mr. May said, and he had fought several times with his grandparents over staying out late. nytimes.com
