Journal andphi's Journal: Ft Hood Shootings 11/5/09 3
For those of you who pray and monitor my journal (hopefully that will be a set of at least 1), please keep the soldiers at Ft Hood in your prayers. There was a shooting today at the Soldier Readiness Center. 12 are dead and 31 are wounded, including the shooter, who was also a soldier.
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I initially thought it might be a psd related thing but apparently this guy was on his way to his first tour in Iraq. Not sure about that. But the bottom line is that with the name Nidal Malik Hasan - it's going to get even uglier whether he was a Muslim or not.
I know people that work on the base that are o.k. Another acquaintance I was in touch with that works at the hospital said they had as many as 12 at a time in surgery. There are going to be a lot of people in grief today and the days to c
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It might be combat fatigue despite the fact that he himself was never deployed. Based on as yet unidentified sources the Major (is|was) a psychiatrist who was apparently treating other soldiers for PTSD/TBI/whatever the hell they're calling combat fatigue this week. I can understand how he might have begun to suffer from it as a result of treating patients suffering from it.
This is mystifying to me a dozen different levels. He was a doctor, and an officer, and a soldier. He broke everything he was when he o
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I know it's early on and there is a lot more information that should be forthcoming but based on what I heard on NPR today - I'm currently hoping for a full recovers so this guy can be tried and executed.