A year after the killings in Pennsylvania, the old school has been torn down and replaced with one named 'New Hope'.
Three of the surviving five girls are back in class with the same teacher. On October 2 the school was closed and silent for the day, in remembrance.
On the anniversary of their loss, the community once again spoke to the larger world, in a statement saying that 'forgiveness is a journey…you need help from your community of faith and from God, and sometimes even from counselors, to make and hold on to a decision to not become a hostage to hostility.' Hostility, they said, 'destroys community.'
Three of the surviving five girls are back in class with the same teacher. On October 2 the school was closed and silent for the day, in remembrance.
On the anniversary of their loss, the community once again spoke to the larger world, in a statement saying that 'forgiveness is a journey…you need help from your community of faith and from God, and sometimes even from counselors, to make and hold on to a decision to not become a hostage to hostility.' Hostility, they said, 'destroys community.'
Perhaps this is something that we, especially in the Town of Rochester, can all learn from.
How do you feel about hostility in your community?
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3 comments:
How can one possibly compare the Town of Rochester's "hostility" (as described by this blog owner) to that of a community that suffered a murderous ramage by an obviously mentally unstable individual on young girls?
The blog owner should be embarrassed.
The entire Town of Rochester is who should be embarrassed because this gang of hooligans have caused all this hostility just to get their way. They are a bunch of bullies and to be honest, I am ashamed to know some of them.
It seems to me that that Amish town in PA has less hostility then our town.
Comment #2 gets a yellow caution flag for being dangerously close to name calling. TOR2007
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