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This year is the tenth anniversary of what Amish people in Pennsylvania call \u201cThe Happening.\u201d In the village of Nickel Mines, in Lancaster County, a heavily armed young man\u2014not Amish\u2014entered an Amish schoolhouse and murdered five little girls, wounded five more, and then killed himself. Correspondent David Tereshchuk reports from Amish country both on what happened and on the extraordinary demonstrations of faith and forgiveness that followed.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is nearly 10 years after the tragedy,\u201d says Terri Roberts, the mother of Charlie Roberts, who murdered five Amish school girls in 2006, \u201cand here I am. I\u2019m alive and I am able to move forward because of the response of the Amish, because of forgiveness. I believe that so much light has been brought into such a dark place.\u201d
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