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昨天下午（3月6日），因為天氣預報龍卷風將襲擊美國印第安納州，36歲的媽媽斯特福妮（Stephanie Decker）提前到學校，將她的八歲和五歲的孩子接回家。龍卷風襲擊時，他們三人躲進地下室。
“風很大。。。窗戶玻璃全破了，接著整個房子在搖晃。”斯特福妮立即決定要保全孩子的性命，她用毯子將兩個孩子裹好，然後將自己的身子躺靠在孩子們身上。
“很快各種各樣的東西打到後背：柱、梁、家具，一切都撞在我的背上。。。我的孩子在尖叫，‘媽媽，我不能沒有你，我不要死，不要讓我死。。。我要你救我。’”斯特福妮不停地祈禱，並不斷地對孩子們說：“我們不會死，我們能夠活下來。”
她意識到雙腳被壓得很疼，似乎已經斷了，感覺生命奄奄一息時，她拿出手機，拍了錄像，並留言告訴她先生，她很愛他，也很愛孩子，若她發生意外離世。。。她接著祈禱自己能夠活下來；孩子們成長需要媽媽，她不願意孩子們失去媽媽。(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.)
她的禱告得到神的垂聽，在她幾乎昏闕的時候，鄰居來她家幫忙，找來警察，立即用止血帶幫助斯特福妮止住腿上的血。
斯特福妮的房子被龍卷風完全摧垮了，她本人在手術後失去了雙腿，而兩個孩子安然無恙，沒有任何傷痕。
最新的采訪視頻，母親斯特福妮談到她雖然失去雙腿，但孩子們一毛不損，她毫無怨言。。。
英雄母親對孩子的獻身的愛，舍己，勇敢，無怨無悔，不是嗎？
英文新聞原文：
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.'"
