"Updated at 2 p.m. ET: As prayer, music and chanting filled the building, hundreds streamed into an Oak Creek, Wis., gymnasium Friday morning to pay their final respects to the woman and five men killed when a gunman opened fire at a Sikh temple in the community last weekend.
Non-Sikhs wearing kerchiefs on their heads and Sikhs alike marched together in neat rows, with some of them stopping at times to embrace one another and exchange a few words. A priest spoke and recited prayers in the native Indian Punjabi.
"Today we mourn with you, we pray with you and we support you,” Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker told those gathered.
Walker praised the Sikhs' "peaceful faith" and their reaction following the shootings, saying they had shown that the best way to respond to the violence is with love.
"No matter what country your ancestors come from, no matter where you worship, no matter where you’re from, as Americans, we are one,” he said."
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Non-Sikhs wearing kerchiefs on their heads and Sikhs alike marched together in neat rows, with some of them stopping at times to embrace one another and exchange a few words. A priest spoke and recited prayers in the native Indian Punjabi.
"Today we mourn with you, we pray with you and we support you,” Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker told those gathered.
Walker praised the Sikhs' "peaceful faith" and their reaction following the shootings, saying they had shown that the best way to respond to the violence is with love.
"No matter what country your ancestors come from, no matter where you worship, no matter where you’re from, as Americans, we are one,” he said."
Article (with video) continued at http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012...kh-temple?lite
