Chapter 62Warpath Journal: Dateline: Holmes County, OhioLife was not simpler then.
My name was Amos Bracken, and I was Amish. I grew up in a Community in Ohio.
I remember it well. I can still taste the home-churned butter on the home-baked bread. Hear the clopping of the horse's hooves as it pulled our buggy down the road. Smell the sweat and manure as I walked behind the plow in the field.
But life was not so simple as you might think. As they might have you believe.
The weight of God was always upon me. The weight of the Community. Their rules and expectations a relentless crushing force.
If you stepped out of line, you were punished or shunned. Your own family would turn against you if the elders decreed it.
I used to long for a truly simple life, like the lives of the En
