I'm driving home from the sporting goods store and I hear a piece on the radio about Ft. Hood, naturally be wanting to possibly be stationed there I turn the dial up so I can hear clearly. What I hear was absolutely astonishing. There are been a shooting and there were 12 people dead and some 30 people wounded. To make matters even worse the shooter was a Major in the Army. Apparently he was set to be deployed to Iraq and seemed to be pretty distraught about the news.
Being deployed overseas is hard enough but to get news there personnel in the military are going on shooting rampages back home is uncalled for. I pray for the families of those killed in today's tragedy or wounded and hope that something like this never happens again.
I heard about this as well. My roomate is in the Army so she told me about this as well. She is just as equally as astonished as you are. I pray for everyone also, and hope that this doesn't happen again.
ReplyDeleteI saw a little bit on the news but I didn't know the details until reading your blog. This is absolutely sad, my brother is in the Army-he is one of those soldiers that you spoke about at the beginning. He has high spirits and is grateful for his job and wants to make things better in Iraq where he is stationed currently. I can't imagine him being in a situation like this. Where the soldiers are close because that is what they are accustomed to but low and behold there is a shooting that close to them. I also will send out my prayers for those involved and I hope that this may never occur again.
ReplyDeletei kinda think it is funny how people get so worked up about the people overseas. Statistically you are actually safer in Afghanistan/Iraq, than you are in America. very few days in Afghanistan/Iraq do a significant amount of people die enough for everyone in the country to mourn. but on average 1 person is KILLED every minute in the US. that is 1440 people a day that many of us do not know or realize have died. we make such a big deal about going there that things like this happen and it truly is sad.
ReplyDeleteIt is sad to hear about the events that happened at Ft. Hood. One of the ladies that I work with has a son that just left Ft. Hood three weeks ago. My thoughts and prayers go out to those who have love ones stationed at Ft. Hood. It is bad enough when we have loved ones fighting overseas that we have to worry about. Now we have to worry about our love ones when they are stationed in America from domestic terrorism.
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