Friday, November 6, 2009

Fort Hood soldiers stories begin to come out

Report: Fort Hood victims include PA soldier

The Associated Press

PITTSBURGH - A western Pennsylvania soldier is reportedly among those wounded in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood.

Sabrina Heath, of Monessen, told KDKA-TV on Friday that her niece Army 2nd Lt. Brandy Mason was shot in the thigh.

Heath said Mason made a brief call Thursday. Mason said she was at the a Soldier Readiness Center waiting her turn when the suspect came in and opened fire.

Heath says Mason spent 14 months in Iraq and was never shot at.
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Soldier was willing to give 'anything it took' for her country
By Tom Held of the Journal Sentinel

Posted: Nov. 6, 2009 2:32 p.m.

Kiel - Staff Sgt. Amy Krueger decided she was willing to put her life at risk for her country the instant a second airplane crashed into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.

"We looked at each other and knew, and the next day we were in the recruiter's office," recalled Kristin Thayer, who watched the attack with Krueger in a commons area at a college in Sheboygan. "Anything it took, anything our country needed of us, even if that meant giving our lives."

Krueger made the ultimate sacrifice that pledge carried. She died Thursday when an Army psychiatrist opened fire on soldiers proceeding through deployment preparations at Fort Hood, in Killeen, Texas.

On Friday, Thayer grieved the loss of her best friend, a classmate and teammate who joined her at that recruiting station determined to serve her country. Both joined the Army Reserves.

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http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/69398932.html




Ogden soldier injured in Fort Hood shooting
By Joseph M. Dougherty

Deseret News

Published: Friday, Nov. 6, 2009 5:09 p.m. MST

WASHINGTON TERRACE — These emotions weren't supposed to come yet.

The worry, the heartache, the fear: They were expected later, once Aggie Foster's son deployed to Afghanistan, not on Thursday while he still was awaiting his deployment at a Texas Army base.

Aggie Foster was at work at Ogden Regional Medical Center when her daughter-in-law called to tell her that a gunman had walked into Fort Hood's Soldier Family Readiness Center and shot her youngest son, Joey, an Army private first class, in the hip.
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Local Soldier Injured in Fort Hood Attack
A Dothan man serving in the Alabama National Guard was wounded yesterday when a fellow soldier allegedly opened fire on Fort Hood, Texas.
A Dothan man serving in the Alabama National Guard was wounded yesterday when a fellow soldier allegedly opened fire on Fort Hood, Texas.

13 people were killed and the Wiregrass man was among the more than 30 injured.

Major Randy Royer of the 135th expeditionary sustainment command based in Birmingham was shot twice during Thursday’s shooting spree.
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http://www.wtvynews4.com/news/headlines/69413897.html




Fort Hood victims include St. Paul soldier

11/06/2009

By AMY FORLITI / Associated Press


A Minnesota soldier and father of three who had a knack for making people laugh was among those killed when an Army psychiatrist allegedly opened fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas.

Kham Xiong of St. Paul, died in the attack Thursday that left 13 people dead and more than two dozen wounded. The alleged gunman, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, was among the injured.

KSTP-TV reported that Xiong was 23, and had three children ages 4, 2 and 10 months. He and his wife had moved to Texas just five months ago, the station said.
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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D9BQB69G1.html




Oklahoma high school graduate one of the soldiers killed at Fort Hood
By BRYAN DEAN Staff Writer
Published: November 6, 2009

A Tipton soldier killed Thursday during a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, was a quiet boy who thought the military would help him grow into a man, his family said Friday.

Spc. Jason Dean Hunt, 22, was one of 12 soldiers killed when a gunman opened fire at a soldier readiness center on the post. The gunman, identified by authorities as Maj. Nadil Malik Hasan, 39, was shot several times by a civilian police officer but survived the attack.

Hunt was a 2005 graduate of Tipton High School. Tipton is near Altus in southwest Oklahoma.
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Oklahoma high school graduate one of the soldiers killed at Fort Hood


UPDATE from CNN

Fort Hood victims: Sons, a daughter, mother-to-be
November 7, 2009 12:52 p.m. EST
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Kham Xiong, 23, remembered as "a very fun, outgoing person"
"What hurts the most is that one of her own killed her," Francheska Velez's father says
Sister recalls Spc. Jason Dean Hunt's words: "He said he would die for a stranger"
Sheryll Pearson, mother of slain soldier Pfc. Michael Pearson says: "We're all very angry"

A CNN Special Investigation drills down on the causes and the impact of the Fort Hood shootings, at 8 p.m. ET Saturday on CNN TV.

Fort Hood, Texas (CNN) -- Thirteen people died after a shooting spree Thursday at Fort Hood, a sprawling Army post in Texas.

Here's a look at the victims whose names have been released:

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http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/06/fort.hood.shootings.victims/index.html

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