This afternoon a fellow soldier turn on his own and did the unspeakable. I ask everyone to say a prayer for the wounded and those that lost their lives today. This recently happened so their isn’t much info yet. All I have heard so far is that one shooter (a MAJ who converted to Islam) was behind the act http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/05/ap/national/main5539292.shtml. He was killed by a police officer who also lost his life protecting our troops. Once again please keep them in your prayers. I am sure that you can offer assistance to the families by contacting the Fort Hood PAO http://pao.hood.army.mil/.
God Speed to those involved, and thanks to the officer who stopped this.
I was in the 101st, and at the Camp Pennsylvania when Mark Fidel Kools (aka Hasan Akbar) rolled 2 M67 grenades into a tent and killed Captain Seifert and Major Stone. I remember the feeling well. I feel the same way now.
I’m not a religious man, but god speed to the victims of this heinous crime.
Condolences to the victims and their families.
That was the same awful feeling I had today. “My God, someone is murdering their fellow soldiers. What a horrible, horrible betrayal.” 
Prayers sent for the fallen warriors and civilians. May their families receive peace and strength.
This is one of those events that just leaves me speechless. It is beyond me how anyone could do such a thing. My prayers go out to those involved, and their families.
Will say a prayer for the soldiers and their families. So sad.
Condolences to all.
Sounds like the perp had some serious “issues”.
It says the perp is still alive now
[b]i FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) - A U.S. Army spokesman says the Fort Hood shootings suspect is alive and was not killed by authorities responding to the attack. Lt. Gen. Bob Cone also says the death toll from the attack remains 12 after another victim died.
Authorities said immediately after Thursday’s attack that they had killed the suspected shooter. But Cone now says the suspected shooter is alive and stable condition.
Cone offered little explanation to reporters at a news conference as to why the suspect was believed dead, saying only there was confusion at the hospital[/i][/b]
Just found out someone I know was shot there. wtf.
This is a sad day for our soldiers…My thoughts and prayers go out to the servicemen, servicewomen and their families affected by this madman…
It is being reported now that he did not perish and is in custody.
I hope he is in SERIOUS pain and discomfort. I will volunteer to assist (in his pain and discomfort) if this is not true…
Update from http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/05/ap/national/main5539292.shtml
(AP) FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) - An Army psychiatrist set to be shipped overseas opened fire at the Fort Hood Army post Thursday, authorities said, a rampage that killed 12 people and left 31 wounded in the worst mass shooting ever at a military base in the United States.
The gunman, first said to have been killed, was wounded but alive and in stable condition under military guard, said Lt. Gen. Bob Cone at Fort Hood. “I would say his death is not imminent,” Cone said. Col. Ben Danner said the suspect was shot at least four times.
The man was identified as Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a 39-year-old, eight-year veteran from Virginia.
President Barack Obama called the shooting at the Soldier Readiness Center, where soldiers who are about to be deployed or who are returning undergo medical screening, “a horrific outburst of violence.”
“It’s difficult enough when we lose these brave Americans in battles overseas,” the commander in chief said. “It is horrifying that they should come under fire at an Army base on American soil.”
There was no official word on motive. Hasan had transferred to Fort Hood in July from Walter Reed Medical Center, where he received a poor performance evaluation, according to an official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the case publicly.
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, said generals at Fort Hood told her that Hasan was about to deploy overseas. Retired Col. Terry Lee, who said he had worked with Hasan, told Fox News he was being sent to Afghanistan.
Lee said Hasan had hoped Obama would pull troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq and got into frequent arguments with others in the military who supported the wars.
Officials were investigating whether Hasan was his birth name or if he may have changed his name, possibly as part of a conversion to Islam. However, they were not certain of his religion.
Video from the scene showed police patrolling the area with handguns and rifles, ducking behind buildings for cover. Sirens could be heard wailing while a woman’s voice on a public-address system urged people to take cover.
“I was confused and just shocked,” said Spc. Jerry Richard, 27, who works at the center but was not on duty during the shooting. “Overseas you are ready for it. But here you can’t even defend yourself.”
Soldiers at Fort Hood don’t carry weapons unless they are doing training exercises.
The Rev. Greg Schannep was about to head into a graduation ceremony when a man in uniform approached him, warning him that someone had opened fire. Schannep heard three volleys of gunfire and saw people running.
“There was a burst of shots and more bursts of shots and people running everywhere,” said Schannep, who works for local Congressman John Carter.
The uniformed man who had warned him ran to the theater. Schannep said he could see the man’s back was bloodied from a wound. The man survived, was treated and will be fine, Schannep said.
Cone said initially three people were held, and all have been interviewed. Authorities believe, however, that there was a single shooter.
The Soldier Readiness Center holds hundreds of people and is one of the most populated parts of the base, said Steve Moore, a spokesman for III Corps at Fort Hood. Nearby there are barracks and a food center where there are fast food chains.
The wounded were dispersed among hospitals in central Texas, Cone said. Their identities, and the identities of the dead, were not immediately released.
Amber Bahr, 19, was shot in the stomach but was in stable condition, said her mother, Lisa Pfund of Random Lake, Wis.
“We know nothing, just that she was shot in the belly,” Pfund told The Associated Press. She couldn’t provide more details and only spoke with emergency personnel.
Hasan was single with no children. He graduated from Virginia Tech, where he was a member of the ROTC and earned a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry in 1997. He received his medical degree from the military’s Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., in 2001 and was at Walter Reed for six years for his internship, residency and a fellowship.
The attack happened just down the road from one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history. On Oct. 16, 1991, George Hennard smashed his pickup truck through a Luby’s Cafeteria window in Killeen, Texas, and fired on the lunchtime crowd with a high-powered pistol, killing 22 people and wounding at least 20 others.
No other shooting at a military base in the U.S. has been anywhere near as deadly as Thursday’s. In 1993, a gunman at Fort Knox shot five civilian co-workers, killing three, and then fatally shot himself.
Around the country, some bases stepped up security precautions, but no others were locked down.
Covering 339 square miles, Fort Hood is the largest active duty armored post in the United States. Home to about 52,000 troops as of earlier this year, it is located halfway between Austin and Waco.
Barrett reported from Washington, D.C. Associated Press Writers Pam Hess, Anne Gearan, Lara Jakes, Suzanne Gamboa and Lolita C. Baldor in Washington, D.C., Jay Root in Temple, Linda Stewart Ball, Anabelle Garay and Andre Coe in Dallas and Colin Fly in Milwaukee and the Associated Press News Research Center contributed to this report.
"Take a moment for the soldiers who were killed and wounded in Killeen Today. "
Will do, sir. I hope everyone will take a moment to realize the severity of the situation as well.
I couldn’t say it any better.
Well put. In addition to keeping our soldiers & their families in your thoughts & prayers, please take a moment also for the brave civilian police officer/ first responder who stopped this barbaric murder spree; I hope that she is able to make a full recovery & by all reports so far, she is a real hero (we could use more folks like her during these tough times).