Hero: The Amish

As the first anniversary of the schoolhouse shooting in a Pennsylvania Amish community approaches, the community itself continues to live a simple, selfless life. The first compassionate act in this story is the community's automatic reflex to forigive the gunman, putting actual Christian ideals in action. More recently, they donated some of the money raised in the Nickel Mines Accountability Committee (dig the name, too) to Marie Roberts, the gunman's widower, now a single mother of three. It's refreshing to read a true story of forgiveness and compassion about people who truly understand what it means to be Christian. All of us could learn a lot from these people.