Article: To pasture: "Amish forgiveness," silence, and the West Nickel Mines school shooting.

Given the flurry of interpretations that followed the tragedy of October 2, 2006, it may be useful first to reconstruct the events of that morning, using details gleaned from numerous news accounts. (2) At just before ten o'clock, a 32-year-old milk truck driver named Charles Carl Roberts IV entered West Nickel Mines Amish School, a simple one-room, stucco building that sat along a country road in the farm fields of Bart Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, with a clevis in his hand. "Have you seen anything like this?" he asked the teacher. "Can you help me find it?" (3)

He then returned to the truck and came back with a shotgun. He had also brought to the ...

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