WICHITA, Ks, April 19, 2007 -- April 20th marks 8 years since the Columbine attacks. Eight years since Crystal Woodman Miller hid under table in her high school library while her friends and classmates were gunned down around her.

She escaped and survived. And she was in Wichita Thursday sharing her amazing story of survival. "Listening to them just gun down classmates and friends wondering how I would die. And not knowing when that time would come if I would have 10 seconds left to live or 10 years," recalled Crystal.

Crystal managed to escape and somehow also survived the horror that followed, in what she calls the most difficult days of her life. Now 8 years later, all those feelings and memories have returned with the news of the Virginia Tech shootings. "I think more than anything my grief comes in knowing that there is another community that faces caos, the confusion, the fear, the sadness the unanswerable questions that they're surrounded by," said Crystal.

The letters, pictures and videotapes sent to NBC may have answered some of those questions, but Crystal says airing them concerns her. "I think in some ways the media's glorifying what Cho. He sent those tapes to NBC so he could be heard, so he could in some way become this figure. He said he looked up to Dillion and Eric and he wants to be kinda that cult like figure that people look up to him for carrying out this mass attack."

But Crystal, now on the public speaking circut says we can stop the violence. New information about Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung Hui says he was bullied and laughed at in high school over his Korean accent and shyness. Crystal's message to young people is that they can keep such issues from escalating. "Reach out to kids who look different, who act different who don't have a group to belong to and by doing that we are inspiring the heart and we will begin to see change take place on the issue of violence. and other issues teens face."

Crystal has also written a book, titled "Marked for Life" about her experiences.