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ABC TV's Good Morning America 20120721
Co-anchor, Dan Harris (In frame but silent, Bianna Golodryga): In Aurora this morning, mixed with the sadness, there is a real sense of defince, a conviction that one "crazed gunman" cannot and will not derail life for everybody. Right now you are going to meet a man who was in the theater and has decided to make a symbolic gesture. ABC's Clayton Sandell has his story.
CS (voiceover): Justin Davis, a sixteen year old lifelong Bat-fan could not wait for the arrival of The Dark Knight.
JD: I had a Batman Boat and a Batman hat, but...I was all Batmanned-out.
CS (voiceover): But Friday's tragic shooting cut Justin's experience short. Such a night of terror and death might make a lot of people think twice about setting foot inside a dark theater again,
CS (on camera): Are you afraid to go back?
JD: Nah, I'm not.
CS (voiceover): But not Justin. Less than twenty-four hours after chaos and carnage turned countless lives upside down, he headed back to the movies with a sense of purpose.
Voice of ticket vendor: OK Just two? There you go!
CS and unnamed companion: Thanks/thank you very much.
Voice of ticket vendor: Sure!
CS (voiceover): With his brother and a friend, Justin went to a new theater last night to see the movie again, but this time not just for themselves.
JD: I just want to finish it, and I'm gonna choose that for all those that went, like, men, women, and children that, you know, didn't get to finish it. I want to finish that for them.
CS (voiceover): And in a plot twist you might find hard to believe, Justin tells him that his faith tells him that the alleged killer, James Holmes, deserves forgiveness.
JD: We should just forgive. And then, you don't know what he's going through. You don't know why he dit it.
CS (voiceover): Forgiveness of not, Justin insists life should not be paralyzed by fear.
JD: Just don't be afraid. Don't be afraid to, you know, put yourself out there. I mean...you know, stuff happens, you know in every day lives and we just..we just have to overcome it, and just rise.
CS (voiceover): For Good Morning America, Clayton Sandell, ABC News, Aurora Colorado