Dozens of Amish mourn schoolhouse killer

[TomInTib]

I am watching an old special on the Amish on teevee right now and just came across this story.


GEORGETOWN, Pa. - Dozens of Amish neighbors came out Saturday to mourn the quiet milkman who killed five of their young girls and wounded five more in a brief, unfathomable rampage.

Charles Carl Roberts IV, 32, was buried in his wife's family plot behind a small Methodist church, a few miles from the one-room schoolhouse he stormed Monday.

His wife, Marie, and their three small children looked on as Roberts was buried beside the pink, heart-shaped grave of the infant daughter whose death nine years ago apparently haunted him, said Bruce Porter, a fire department chaplain from Colorado who attended the service.

About half of perhaps 75 mourners on hand were Amish.

"It's the love, the forgiveness, the heartfelt forgiveness they have toward the family. I broke down and cried seeing it displayed," said Porter, who had come to Pennsylvania to offer what help he could. He said Marie Roberts was also touched.

"She was absolutely deeply moved, by just the love shown," Porter said.


We should all be this good and forgiving (and I, TominTib, who have never forgiven anyone for anything but have always extracted my own kind of revenge and vengeance, will attempt to carry a life lesson away from this horrible thing):
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061008/ap_on_re_us/amish_school_shooting