Member of Amish community says 'innocence is gone' after shootings
PARADISE, Pa. (AP) — From the countryside they came, wending through the corn and alfalfa on foot and by buggy, leaving behind fields and flocks to seek solace in one another's words and comfort in each other's arms.
But when the Amish men and women of the Cattail District congregation gathered around a neighbor's shed in the early evening coolness, it was not themselves they wept and prayed for. No, Rebecca Smoker says, the tears they shed were for the children -- too young to comprehend what has been lost.
"You sorrow because the...
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