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How Is This For Practicing What You Preach? WOW!
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - An Amish community that lost five girls in a Pennsylvania schoolhouse shooting massacre last year has donated money to the widow of the gunman, the community said on Wednesday.
The Nickel Mines Accountability Committee, which was set up to handle more than $4.3 million in donations from around the world after the shootings, said it had given an unspecified “contribution” to Marie Roberts, a mother of three.
Her husband, Charles Carl Roberts, a local milk truck driver who was not Amish, tied up and shot 10 Amish schoolgirls aged 6 to 14 in their classroom last October 2, killing five of them before turning the gun on himself.
After the shootings, members of the deeply religious Amish community in Lancaster County about 60 miles west of Philadelphia, said they wanted to forgive the gunman.
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September 18th, 2007 at 12:51 am
I too wrote about this gesture by these amazing people:
http://www.openeducation.net/2007/09/16/amish-set-an-example-for-all/. However, I was not aware of their time spent in Blacksburg as was noted on the Politics As Usual website. I wish I had been as that only adds to the view that these people do “set an example for all of us.”
Tom Hanson
Editor
OpenEducation.net