这两天美国中西部刮龙卷风，晚上杰明在网上看到一则新闻，分享给轻舟和孩子们，相当感人，遂记录下来与大家分享：

   昨天下午（3月6日），因为天气预报龙卷风将袭击美国印第安纳州，36岁的妈妈斯特福妮（Stephanie Decker）提前到学校，将她的八岁和五岁的孩子接回家。龙卷风袭击时，他们三人躲进地下室。

  “风很大。。。窗户玻璃全破了，接着整个房子在摇晃。”斯特福妮立即决定要保全孩子的性命，她用毯子将两个孩子裹好，然后将自己的身子躺靠在孩子们身上。

  “很快各种各样的东西打到后背：柱、梁、家具，一切都撞在我的背上。。。我的孩子在尖叫，‘妈妈，我不能没有你，我不要死，不要让我死。。。我要你救我。’”斯特福妮不停地祈祷，并不断地对孩子们说：“我们不会死，我们能够活下来。”

  她意识到双脚被压得很疼，似乎已经断了，感觉生命奄奄一息时，她拿出手机，拍了录像，并留言告诉她先生，她很爱他，也很爱孩子，若她发生意外离世。。。她接着祈祷自己能够活下来；孩子们成长需要妈妈，她不愿意孩子们失去妈妈。(I prayed to have the strength to survive, that I want these kids to have a mom and I did not want them to grow up without me.)

  她的祷告得到神的垂听，在她几乎昏阙的时候，邻居来她家帮忙，找来警察，立即用止血带帮助斯特福妮止住腿上的血。

  斯特福妮的房子被龙卷风完全摧垮了，她本人在手术后失去了双腿，而两个孩子安然无恙，没有任何伤痕。

  最新的采访视频，母亲斯特福妮谈到她虽然失去双腿，但孩子们一毛不损，她毫无怨言。。。

  英雄母亲对孩子的献身的爱，舍己，勇敢，无怨无悔，不是吗？


英文新闻原文：
An Indiana mom who saved her children's lives by shielding them with her own body during a tornado has lost parts of both of her legs.

36-year-old Stephanie Decker said in an interview with Fox59 that she picked her children, 8-year-old Dominic and 5-year-old Reese, up early from school when she heard the storm was approaching. They were in the family's basement when the storm hit.

"There was wind like I had never seen wind before," Decker said. "Then the glass broke, and as soon as the glass broke the whole house started shifting."

Decker made a split-second decision to save her children, tying them up in a blanket and throwing herself on top of them.

"Everything started hitting my back: pillars, beams, furniture, everything was just slamming into my back," she said. "(My children) were screaming, 'Mommy I can't live without you, I don't want to die, please don't let me die.' And I said, 'We are not going to die, we are going to make it.' "

Miraculously, her children emerged from the storm completely unscathed. Decker lost one leg above the knee and the other above the ankle.

"When I looked down and looked at my leg and realized either it was cut off or it was barely attached, I took my phone and made a video to my husband telling him that I loved him, and my children that I loved them, in case something were to happen," Decker said. "I prayed to have the strength to survive, that I want these kids to have a mom and I did not want them to grow up without me."

Her prayers were answered when she was rescued by a neighbor. He ran for help and found a deputy sheriff traveling on a four-wheeler about a quarter of a mile away. 

The deputy applied tourniquets to Decker's legs to halt her blood loss.

She has been scheduled to undergo surgery on her legs again Thursday, hospital spokeswoman Holly Hinson said.

The Decker's house was completely destroyed.

Stephanie's husband Joe said it was "pretty amazing" his wife was able to survive

"I told her, 'They're here because of you,'" Joe Decker told The Associated Press by telephone from the University of Louisville Hospital. "I let her know that nothing else matters. I said, 'You're going to be here for your kids, and you get to see them grow up.'"