Thursday, October 05, 2006
It seems like there is always an image that sticks with me that sort of distills a tragedy for me in my head.
I'll remember this obscenity from the news photo of an elderly Amish man standing by a building, looking up in the sky as a medical rescue helicopter took a little Amish girl away in one of the most intrusive ways possible, for the most noble and God sent reason.
I tried to imagine what he must have been thinking beyond the overall horror, to stand there and be assaulted by the sounds and winds and people and technology that came with that helicopter, to see this particular proof of the antithesis of simple, and to surely be praying that it would protect the child's life and be an instrument that might make her recovery possible.
I posted this as a comment on another blog. Decided to leave it here, too, since it is what I'm thinking about today as this Pennsylvanian community buries its dead.
# posted by Carol : 4:06 PM
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CAT: The Amish truly are special folks.In '84 on my return motorcycle trip from Canada, I spent 4 days in Amish Country. You would have had quite a chuckle at this Texas Jew Boy speaking Yiddish with the Amish men. They speak a dialect of German , which I didn't know, however we all laughed at the Yiddish and German spoken back and forth.The tourists looked at the leathered-up bike rider and the Amish men. After about 20 minuets I thought we were very cool 'til an elderly tourist came up to me and wispered"Boychik, Zie nicht bein Juden" ( Young man they aren't Jewish" " I replied to the old man " Bitter, Ich bein Juden!" Please, I'm a Jew. The old man smiled, stepped back, shook my hand and disappeared into the tourist crowd. May G-D bless the little girls and their families!, and a full recovery to those still in hospital.
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