Wow. Those were are the unimaginably brave words of Marian Fisher, a 13-year old Amish girl facing murder:
The oldest of the five Amish girls shot dead in a Pennsylvania schoolhouse is said to have stepped forward and asked her killer to "Shoot me first," in an apparent effort to buy time for her schoolmates....What's more, Fisher's 11-year-old sister, Barbie, who survived the shooting, allegedly asked the gunman, Charles Carl Roberts IV, to "Shoot me second," Rhoads said.
"They were amazing," Rhoads said, "absolutely amazing. There was a tremendous amount of calm and courage in that schoolroom... The faith of their fathers really was embedded in them. … How many adults are willing to do that? Not many."
Marian Fisher is being buried today, along with Naomi Rose Ebersole, 7, and sisters Mary Liz Miller, 8, and Lena Miller, 7. Anna Mae Stoltzfus, 12, is to be buried on Friday.
There could not be a more selfless, brave act. What amazing young women.
As Happy Catholic points out, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." (John 15:13)
H/T to The Anchoress.
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