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(WSJ) Peggy Noonan–A Northerner Bows to Charleston, South Carolina

Posted on June 20, 2015 by Kendall Harmon

I have never seen anything like what I saw on television this afternoon. Did you hear the statements made at the bond hearing of the alleged Charleston, S.C., shooter?

Nine beautiful people slaughtered Wednesday night during Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, and their relatives were invited to make a statement today in court. Did you hear what they said?

They spoke of mercy. They offered forgiveness. They invited the suspect, who was linked in by video from jail, to please look for God.

There was no rage, no accusation””just broken hearts undefended and presented for the world to see. They sobbed as they spoke.

Read it all.

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One comment on “(WSJ) Peggy Noonan–A Northerner Bows to Charleston, South Carolina”

  1. Pageantmaster Ù† says:
    June 21, 2015 at 1:12 am

    I just have to say what a people the people of Charleston are. They are doing something right, something beautiful, to be who they’ve been the past few days.

    From the beginning they handled the tragedy with such heart and love. They handled it like a community, a real, alive one that people live within connected to each other.

    Yes

    Charleston deserves something, a bow. So too do the beautiful people who go to Wednesday night Bible study in America in 2015. They are the people who are saving America every day, completely unheralded, and we can hardly afford to lose them.

    There’s only one thing Charleston doesn’t deserve. People apart from the trauma, far away, have already begun to bring their political agenda items to the tragedy and make sure they are debated. Because this is the right time for a political debate, right?

    Here’s an idea: Why don’t you leave the grieving alone right now? Why don’t you not impose your agenda items on them? Why don’t you not force them to debate while they have tears in their throats?

    Don’t politicize their pain. Don’t turn this into a debate on a flag or guns. Don’t use it to make your points and wave your finger from your high horse.

    These people are doing it right without you.

    They are loving each other and helping each other. Let them grieve in peace. And respect them as what they are, heroic.

    Amen