Here’s a video of one of the many TV interviews to come with Atlanta hostage Ashley Smith, the extraordinary woman who survived a night with now-captured courthouse gunman Brian Nichols. She has come forward with moving details about her faith, her husband’s own violent death, her five-year-old daughter, and her compassionate interaction with a monster. An excerpt:

Choking back tears, she said she told Nichols that her husband died four years ago and if he hurt her, her little girl wouldn’t have a mother or father. Smith’s attorney, Josh Archer, said her husband died in her arms after being stabbed.

The two talked about the Bible and she handed him photos of her family. When morning came, Nichols was “overwhelmed” when Smith made him pancakes with real butter, she said.

Nichols at one point called her “an angel sent from God,” Smith said.

I have no doubt she is.

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Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord (Psalms 31:24).

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Update: Compare Ashley Smith’s courage with the pathetic behavior of unhinged Good Morning America producer Mike Nagel.

Hat tip to Derek Rose, who has screen shots of the melee. Unbelievable.