SAM KILBURN, City of Boulder Open Space and Mountains Parks Ranger. Part of the second wave who responded within minutes to the King Soopers at the main entrance. He later helped people evacuate from the back of the store. When asked for a quote, he suggested this: “So this is tragedy. Yes….In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time suspended, the great doors open to black eternity, the rising across the terrible field of that last, enormous, unanswerable question.” – The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara