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upyerbum
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Thats what just makes this worse. Why would you fuck with the Amish, they don't even have guns for fucks sake. I'd like to think they could teach me
something, but I just don't have that kind of forgiveness in me. Perhaps its a weight they carry for us all.
Well, its this place where nobody works, and the pigs don\'t give you any shit. Everyone smokes weed and gets drunk all day. Its a place where
cunts like me and you can truly take it easy and relax. Know what I mean?
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yeah, these people continue to amaze me....
Amish prepare to bury 4 shooting victims
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM, Associated Press Writer
GEORGETOWN, Pa. - Horse-drawn buggies glided past roadblocks Thursday morning as Amish families gathered to bury four of the five young girls who were
gunned down inside their tiny rural schoolhouse.
All roads leading into the village of Nickel Mines, where a milk truck driver had taken the children hostage and killed them, were blocked off for the
funerals.
Their Amish families asked for privacy as scores of mourners prayed at the girls' homes before taking the bodies to a hilltop cemetery and burying
Naomi Rose Ebersole, 7; Marian Fisher, 13; and sisters Mary Liz Miller, 8, and Lena Miller, 7.
The funeral for a fifth girl, Anna Mae Stoltzfus, 12, was scheduled for Friday.
Five survivors of the schoolhouse attack continued to fight their injuries Thursday, at least four of them still hospitalized.
County coroner G. Gary Kirchner said he had been contacted by a doctor at Penn State Children's Hospital in Hershey who said doctors expected to take
one girl off life support so she could be brought home. Dr. D. Holmes Morton, who runs a clinic that serves Amish children, said Thursday that the
reports that a 6-year-old had been taken off life-support and taken home to die were accurate "as far as I know."
"I just think at this point mostly these families want to be left alone in their grief and we ought to respect that," Morton said.
National mourning of similar tragedies, such as the massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado, has been enabled in part by media coverage ?
something the Amish generally shun.
In Lancaster County, there have been prayer services for the Amish school shooting victims at area churches, but the traditional funerals for the
girls were closed. About 300 to 500 people were expected at each, said funeral director Philip W. Furman.
Amish custom calls for simple wooden caskets, narrow at the head and feet and wider in the middle. An Amish girl is typically laid to rest in a white
dress, a cape, and a white prayer-covering on her head, Furman said.
The girls' families, Amish neighbors and friends are coping with the slayings by looking inward, relying on themselves and their faith, just as they
have for centuries, to get them through what one Amish bishop called "our 9/11."
"They know their children are going to heaven. They know their children are innocent ... and they know that they will join them in death,"
said Gertrude Huntington, a Michigan researcher who has written a book about children in Amish society.
"The hurt is very great," Huntington said. "But they don't balance the hurt with hate."
In just about any other community, a deadly school shooting would have brought demands from civic leaders for tighter gun laws and better security,
and the victims' loved ones would have lashed out at the gunman's family or threatened to sue.
But that's not the Amish way.
In the aftermath of Monday's violence, the Amish have reached out to the family of the gunman, Charles Carl Roberts IV, 32, who committed suicide
during the attack in a one-room schoolhouse.
Dwight Lefever, a Roberts family spokesman, said an Amish neighbor comforted the Roberts family hours after the shooting and extended forgiveness to
them. Among Roberts' survivors are his wife and three children.
"I hope they stay around here and they'll have a lot of friends and a lot of support," said Daniel Esh, a 57-year-old Amish artist and woodworker
whose three grandnephews were inside the school during the attack.
Roberts' relatives may even receive money from a fund established to help victims and their families, said Kevin King, executive director of Mennonite
Disaster services, an agency managing the donations.
Though the Amish generally do not accept help from outside their community, King quoted an Amish bishop as saying, "We are not asking for
funds. In fact, it's wrong for us to ask. But we will accept them with humility."
The attack on West Nickel Mines Amish School began Monday morning when Roberts took over the one-room school, sent the adults and boys out and bound
the 10 remaining girls at the blackboard. He was in the school for about an hour before he shot his hostages and turned the gun on himself as police
closed in.
State police have said Roberts might have been planning to sexually assault the Amish girls but there was no evidence that he actually did.
Roberts had revealed to his wife in a note left behind the day of the attacks and in a cell phone call from inside the school that he was tormented by
memories of molesting two young relatives 20 years ago and dreamed of molesting again. But police said Wednesday there was no evidence of any such
sexual abuse.
Investigators spoke to the two relatives Roberts named, who would have been 4 or 5 at the time, and said neither recalled being sexually assaulted by
Roberts.
"They were absolutely sure they had no contact with Roberts," said state police Trooper Linette Quinn.
On the roads into Nickel Mines early Thursday, families in traditional Amish dress, broad-brimmed hats and bonnets walked on foot and traveled in
horse-drawn buggies. The clip-clop of the horses was broken up only by the roar of official helicopters overhead enforcing a no-fly zone over the
region.
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
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Voodoobillyman
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I feel bad for his family, they are victims in this too. That piece of shit had kids who looked up to him and loved him and he has victimized them
too. Not only did they lose their dad, but they lost him this way and have to live with that. The whole thing is so terrible you just have no words
for it.
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oh i definitely feel for his family as well. usually i don't, but his wife and children had no idea what was coming; it's not like the turned a blind
eye to the signs for years. in yet another example of just how strong these people are, the amish families invited the wife of the killer to the
funerals of their girls.
unfortunately, it now looks like one of the five that was still in the hospital has been taken off of life support so her family can take her home and
let her pass there.
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
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Voodoobillyman
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BD
oh i definitely feel for his family as well. usually i don't, but his wife and children had no idea what was coming; it's not like the turned a blind
eye to the signs for years. in yet another example of just how strong these people are, the amish families invited the wife of the killer to the
funerals of their girls.
unfortunately, it now looks like one of the five that was still in the hospital has been taken off of life support so her family can take her home and
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yeah, a six year old girl. too much man, too much.
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MyOwnWay
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I just dont get it. He had kids of his own, how could he not think of them. You could use the reasoning that he acted out on what happened years ago,
but now what about his kids. How are they gonna grow up... He should have saught help and counceled his own kids in life on how to act in situations.
I mean fuck, I cant imagine how the kids must feel. Selfish prick. I hope he rots in hell.
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