Mourners walk down Mine Road in Georgetown, Pa. on Friday, Oct. 6, 2006, on the way to funeral services for Anna Mae Stoltzfus, 12, the fifth of the schoolgirls slain in an Amish school shooting in the nearby community of Nickel
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My admiration for the way the Amish people have reacted to this tragedy is boundless and what a lesson for the rest of us. If only others sought privacy in which to grieve instead of the dreadful public display of televised weeping and wailing which seems to be the norm in Britain, accompanied often by demands for something called closure. Pray for the souls of those poor little girls.
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