Mr. Hume, this is what forgiveness is

[grantcart]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-485983/Found-The-monster-My-Lai-massacre.html

"They just killed and killed. The bullets came down like rain. One man grabbed my mother's hair and pushed her face down into the water and shot her."

Mrs Quy was shot in the back, but recovered in a U.S. military clinic after being rescued by the helicopter hero, Hugh Thompson.

Understandably, she still feels angry - yet, like all the survivors we interviewed, she showed an uplifting spirit of forgiveness. The director of the My Lai Museum, Mr Pham Thanh Cong - who lost his mother and three siblings but escaped with bullet wounds - even extended an olive branch to Calley.

"If the government will allow it, I invite him here, not to scold him or reprimand him, but to try and understand why he ordered the killing," Mr Cong said. "If he comes here, he and I could become friends. We could confide and talk to each other. We really want him to come back and see the truth."

From a man who has suffered so much, it was a remarkable gesture. Sadly, however, William Calley - who has never demonstrated the slightest desire to make his peace with the Vietnamese people - was not even willing to discuss it this week. Unless, of course, he received a fat fee.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-485983/Found-The-monster-My-Lai-massacre.html#ixzz0bicyrUMV

Mrs. Quy and Mr. Cong sound like Buddhists to my ear but it would be equally pleasing to know that there are Christians who in fact understand the real Gospel of Forgiveness that Jesus preached and that Brit Hume mumbles about but has no real concept of.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. No words, but K&R

[onestepforward]

2. K&R Powerful story.

Thanks for posting it.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. Is that a bible in his hand?? Unrepentant????

[grantcart]

5. The unrepentant part is not clear.

[Solomon]

4. Whew!

Too bad this can't be a comeback on his stupid show.

[grantcart]

6. Yes and Evangelicals will be buying him lunches the rest of his life

believing that he really "gave a good one" to the pagans.