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Are_grits_groceries

(17,111 posts)
Tue Mar 6, 2012, 08:27 AM Mar 2012

Indiana mother loses legs while saving her children from tornado

A Marysville, Ind., mother lost parts of both legs but saved the lives of her two children by covering them with her body as a tornado crushed their home on top of them Friday, her husband said.


Stephanie Decker, 36, lost one leg above the knee and the other above the ankle, said her husband, Joe Decker. She is in stable condition at University Hospital in Louisville. The children survived without a scratch, he said.
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She said she saw a massive piece of debris collapsing on her and pulled her daughter out of the way of it at the last moment. “She just kind of grabbed her and turned,” Joe Decker said. “She doesn’t remember anything after that.”

The heroics continued after the funnel cloud passed, Joe Decker added, with their son rushing out into the blinding hail to alert neighbors, several of whom quickly came to her rescue.
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http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20120304/NEWS02/303040073/Indiana-mother-loses-legs-while-saving-her-children-from-tornado

Heroes of all ages.........
That kid has onions to get help after that trauma!













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Indiana mother loses legs while saving her children from tornado (Original Post) Are_grits_groceries Mar 2012 OP
And according to pat robertson,... MarianJack Mar 2012 #1

MarianJack

(10,237 posts)
1. And according to pat robertson,...
Tue Mar 6, 2012, 10:06 AM
Mar 2012

...those people didn't pray enough.

So, robertson has an almost rush limbooger lack of sensitivity for victims of a natural disaster.

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