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Hey belivers!!! have you read about children seeing angels at Cokeville elementary school?

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what a story! In fact scores of children saw and heard the same thing. And guess what they were neither delusional or lying, just kids telling the truth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cokeville_Elementary_School_hostage_crisis

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Haven't read that. I think maybe it was each child's guardian angel though.

Believers, have you read this link to the glorious intervention of real angels helping kids a Cokeville.?

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http://www.beliefnet.com/Inspiration/Angels/2001/01/Angels-In-The-Classroom.aspx?p=1

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I hope your not at all serious about this question.

Did anyone see that last night!?!?!?!?!??? What was it?

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Did anyone see that bright light shine down on a mountain near me? I live in Cokeville, Wyoming, and there is a mountain a while away, and there was this blue-ish light that was really bright shining on it last night and I went up today to see what it was, and found a huge hand print on it, my pictures are uploading on the computer right now. What was it? I'm confused.

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Maybe it was a dream.I am confused too

Christians & Atheists, have you read this wonderful true story of Angels saving children from terrorists???

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By WHITNEY ROYSTER Star-Tribune staff writer [oas:casperstartribune.net/news/wyoming:Middle1] COKEVILLE -- More than being survivors, many of the former students and teachers at Cokeville Elementary School believe they were something else on May 16, 1986: witnesses to miracles. The theme of being witness to miracles, and to a higher power, is so compelling in this predominantly Mormon community that a book of the same title has been published. People held hostage at the school have stories of seeing angels, of being told by them what to do, and of divine intervention being unquestionably a part of that spring day. JaNene Nostaja, the mother of a child held hostage, was serving as an emergency technician that day, and she remembers seeing the schoolroom where the kids and teachers were held hostage the next day. "When I saw the shrapnel in all the walls, embedded in the ceiling ... and not one kid got hurt?" she said. "When we stood and looked at the wall -- there's no way." There's no way, she said, there wasn't divine intervention. Nostaja also said the day after the bombing, the entire room was caked in black. But on one of the walls was a white outline of Christ. "There's some of all religion in Cokeville," Nostaja said. "Whatever religion, they knew they had been blessed and protected that day." Kliss Sparks, a former teacher, said she, too, saw the white outline. "I saw it, too," said Celeste Excell Jackman, now 32, then a sixth-grader at Cokeville Elementary. Jackman doesn't particularly enjoy talking about the incident of 1986. She doesn't like to be in the spotlight, and says the hostage event is not the "main focus of my life." But she is willing to share the story as a way to talk about God's love, and a way to talk about miracles. Many survivors talk about seeing guardian angels in the schoolroom -- one for each person. The idea of angels protecting people was the subject of a book and a television movie, "When Angels Intervene to Save the Children." Sharon Dayton, director of the Cokeville Miracle Foundation, said there were about 10 people who talked about angels in the room. Hostages received "instructions" from them, and feelings of peace and love. Before the bomb went off, the angels surrounded the bomb to protect people, Dayton said. Some people later recognized their angels in old photos, saying they were family members who had died years before. "We're really talking about a Cokeville miracle," he said. Karla Toomer, Cokeville mayor who was also instrumental in putting together the new book, said most everyone talks about "heavenly help." "When they heard what was really going on and what was supposed to happen, everyone talks about heavenly help," she said. "Everyone says, 'Of course there was help.' Each kid getting out was a miracle. Angels being visible is a miracle." Sparks said when she left the room after the bomb exploded, there were two boys in the hall whose hair was on fire. "I put it out," she said. "I knew then, somebody was taking care of us. When I saw the bomb had not gone off in the way it should have, I knew then." Jackman agreed. "I was being told what to do, or I wouldn't have known what to do." http://www.jacksonholestartrib.com/articles/2006/05/14/news/wyoming/d36aa853aa1a14498725716d0070b595.txt

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Well I'm convinced. This story offers so much proof and their couldn't be any other explanation. Especially since none of this came out until years later....

Atheists: What is your theory for this miracle?

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Cokeville Wyoming was the sight of a parent's worst nightmare on May 16th, 1986 when a mentally disturbed man and his wife entered an elementary school with guns and a homemade gasoline bomb. The man's name was David Young, a former town marshal. He had been the tiny's towns only police officer in six months during 1979 and when he was fired, he moved to Tucson, Arizona. He and his wife returned to Cokeville in 1986 and carried out their insidious plan. Young had a manifesto called "Zero-Infiniti" and proclaimed "this is a revolution!" as he and his wife took an entire generation - over 160 children and teachers - hostage and wouldn't release them until he was given 300 million dollars and a personal phone call from the President of the United States. Keeping all the children in a single room and standing in the middle of it, the Youngs began a standoff that would last 2 1/2 hours. David left the room leaving his wife alone and it was then that the bomb went off instantly killing Doris. Young returned and seeing his wife dead, turned his gun on himself and pulled the trigger. The miraculous thing is that despite the shooting and the detonation of the bomb, the Youngs were the only casualties. Some children suffered flash burns from the explosion, but all were alive. In the last 20 years, this event has become known as The Miracle of Cokesville. The story runs deeper. Bomb experts called out to the scene were stunned. They couldn't figure out why the school was still intact when a bomb that size should have obliterated the entire side of the building leaving everyone - the hostage-takers and the hostages - all dead. How was this possible? To this day no one has provided an explanation. The children and teachers were alive and that was all that apparently mattered. Then the children began to tell stories of angels who appeared to them and instructed them to move to a corner of the classroom because the bomb was about to explode. Some reported seeing beautiful figures in white while others said that they saw long-dead relatives telling them not to be afraid. Many said later that there was an angel in the room for every child and that each was protecting their charge. Some children said that they didn't see anything, but rather heard disembodied voices telling them that the disaster was about to happen and that they would be spared. All of these stories may seem like a child's fancy had it not been for the miraculous survival of everyone in the room. Adding to the mystery was the fact that on one of the blackened walls covered with shrapnel that somehow misses every child in the room was burned the outline of a human shape with wings (Special thanks to Jason Guilbault for sending me the pictures!). A bomb that should have leveled a building somehow spared 167 innocent people that stood unprotected in the same room. Did God send down angels to protect them? Were they protected by the loving spirits of relatives? Or was it just a case of blind luck that only the hostage takers met there end on that day? The only thing that can be said for certainty is that - through divine will or incredible chance - Cokeville was the sight of a miracle. Some people find this so darned offensive, due to the speculation that a bomb going off in the middle of a classroom and not killing 167 kids can be called a miracle or because god doesn't exist. Personally, even though I'm an deist myself, I don't believe in miracles or divine intervention The whole point of Awesome Mysteries is to invite speculation and theory... not to be douchebags about what we do or do not believe in. More information. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu_Ssqleh_E http://www.kajama.com/index.php?file=articledetail&id=3AE5295E-5BDB-4E79-8832-F08F531343BA&PageNum=1 reference http://www.slightlywarped.com/crapfactory/awesomemysteries/mirableofcokeville.htm

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I don't believe in miracles. If there WAS a God, he would have made the bomb disappear. THAT would be a miracle. Only a Christian could look at a plane crash where 300 people died, but 1 survived, and call that a 'miracle of God'.

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