to the day, a man went into an Amish school house in Pennsylvania and forced several little girls to lay down on the floor.  He shot them execution style before shooting himself.  No one knew that this man was so troubled...he led a normal life and was married and had children.  Apparently, he left a note, I believe, in which he said he was seeking revenge for some kind of slight of the religious community or whatever involving the death of his own child several years earlier.

When money and attention started pouring into this Amish community, the community members made it clear that they forgave this man for killing their children and that they expected his wife and family to be recognized as being in grief just as they were.  In our eye-for-an-eye society, I thought this was a powerful statement made by the Amish community.