Amish Shooting Victim Begged to Be Shot First to Save Others
Friday , October 06, 2006
GEORGETOWN, Pa. —
Under a cold, steady drizzle, the Amish drove in horse and buggy to a farmland cemetery Friday to bury the fifth of five girls shot to death by an intruder as new details emerged of heroism inside their schoolhouse.
Two of the survivors of the shooting told their parents that 13-year-old Marian Fisher, one of the slain girls, asked to be shot first, apparently hoping the younger girls would be let go, according to Leroy Zook, an Amish dairy farmer.
"Shoot me and leave the other ones loose," Marian has been quoted as saying, Zook said. His daughter, Emma Mae Zook, was the teacher who ran from the schoolhouse to a farm to summon police....
Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,218459,00.html
While you mock the Amish, ask yourselves who among you would have had the courage to step forward as this Amish girl did?
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I think tht you're being a little unfair to Dan.
While others have posted, what I would call some rude comments, often standard procedure here at FR. I don't think he has been in that mix. I think the comments that I've read by him reflect a respect for the Ahmish. I admire MANY of their virtues, just not all of them. Regardless, they are peaceful and free to live as they choose
The young Ahmish girl who was murdered gave a wonderful testimony of her faith in Christ. That we should have such grace!