Watching this movie has me think back to the day that the Amish were struck by disaster in 2007. I remember when I heard the news, I was in my 8th period drawing class. My classmate, teacher and I were all stunned by what had happened. Being from Pennsylvania, we were all effect by what had happened.
What do you remember from that day?
Smelly Cat, Smelly Cat, what are they feeding you
I don't remember much. I was just wondering why anyone would shoot up an Amish school.
shareThat's why it was so shocking. I had a conversation with my family that evening asking the same thing. They're harmless and so simple, but stronge at the same time. It takes tremendous strength to forgive something like that. They're people to look up too.
Smelly Cat, Smelly Cat, what are they feeding you
I remember hearing about it. I was living in Germany at the time...I am originally from PA...shocking. I thought the movie was good. Not sure how well it stayed to the true story. I read that the movie wasn't good, pleasantly surprised. I got plenty of tears throughout.
shareI am from PA as well and I remember hearing about this incident on the news and how tragic it was. But I also remember the following days a local radio show host prevented this tragedy from becoming worse. Mike Gallagher gave those Westboro Baptist Church nuts an hour of his radio time so that they wouldn't picket the funerals for the little girls. Everyone has heard of WBC...they are the sick religious people that picket the dead american soldier's funerals.
I am so glad Mike Gallagher did what he did, what those sickos were going to be picketing was just disgraceful.
Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church members should not be classified as a religious orgization. They preach hate...not love and harmony.
shareIt happened in 2006.
I didn't hear anything about it, but I live in the midwest and didn't watch a lot of news at that age.
~this is temporary sanity, an exercise in vanity~
Sheer shock and sadness at what had happened. It also made me question my own beliefs. Would I be able to forgive because that is what God wanted me to do?
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It was 2006, not 2007.
I was living in Oregon and I had got up to check my email before I went to courses my senior year of college. MSNBC was my homepage and my jaw hit the floor when I read the headlines. I couldn't believe what monster could do that. My son was only 2.5 months old at the time and I held him extra tight that day.
I was only around 13 at the time and I'm from England, so I only remember the news report, I think the next day or later in that day due to the time difference/by the time we got the report.
I remember being sad and thinking about how I was already older than most of the children that died but mostly I remember becoming really interested in the Amish society more than ever (I always found them interesting but didn't know much before this point). Now any time I hear about or see things relating to the Amish people I always make sure to watch them and discover more as of how much I respect their strength, while not everything they do is agreeable to me, I still believe they are amazing people.
It Can't rain all the time ;-) xXx
i was in 6th form at the time and remember reading about it in the metro. i remember a picture someone took of a girl leaning out of the carriage as well
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