Veteran 75 Years Old Saves Kids At Library From Attacker

Army veteran, 75, saves 16 children from knife attack at public library 
Washington Times
Jessica Chasmar
October 16, 2015

A 75-year-old Army veteran is recovering from stab wounds after saving 16 terrified children from a knife-wielding teen who had reportedly planned a mass murder.

James Vernon was leading a chess club meeting with children at a public library in Morton, Illinois, Tuesday afternoon when Dustin Brown, 19, burst into the room wielding two knives and threatening the children, Fox News reported.

As Mr. Vernon inched closer to Mr. Brown, Mr. Brown started to back up, giving the children room to escape.

“I gave them the cue to get the heck out of there, and, boy, they did that! Quick, like rabbits,” Mr. Vernon said.

Mr. Brown slashed the knife at the Army vet, who blocked the blade with his left hand.

“I grabbed him and threw. … Somehow he wound up on a table” with the knife in his left hand pinned under his body, Mr. Vernon told the Times. “I hit him on the (right) collarbone with my closed hand” until Mr. Brown dropped that knife.
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Mass Shooting At Oregon Umpqua Community College

Oregon shooting: Gunman dead after college rampage
CNN By Dana Ford
Updated 5:34 PM ET, Thu October 1, 2015

(CNN)The man who opened fire at Oregon's Umpqua Community College on Thursday is dead, Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin told reporters.

No police officers were injured, but preliminary information indicates 10 people were killed and more than 20 others injured in the shooting, according to Oregon State Police spokesman Bill Fugate.

Officers and the gunman exchanged fire. The shooter was a 20-year-old man, according to Oregon Gov. Kate Brown.

"It's been a terrible day," said Hanlin. "At this point, it's a very active scene. It's a very active investigation."
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Staff Sgt. Josh Berry Survived Fort Hood Massacre, Then He Didn't

Then there was Staff Sgt. Josh Berry, wounded when the shooter opened fire inside a crowded medical building at the sprawling Army post in Texas. While he was not one of the 13 soldiers who lost their lives or the 32 others who were struck by bullets, Josh Berry struggled through years of pain and suffering caused by the attack before he couldn't handle it anymore, family members said. The Mason native committed suicide on Feb. 13, 2013.

Father says PTSD killed his son, and VA did nothing to help
WCPO 9 News
Marais Jacon-Duffy, Scott Wegener

SYCAMORE TOWNSHIP, Ohio -- Howard Berry lost his son two years ago.

“He said, ‘your son is in good hands. He’s being monitored. We’re keeping close tabs on him,’” Berry said. “I buried him three months before.”

Staff Sergeant Josh Berry was at Fort Hood Army Base when an armed shooter killed 13 people in 2009. Berry was not killed. He survived the shooting, just like he survived deployment to Afghanistan. But Berry’s toughest battle, his father said, was post-traumatic stress disorder.

Josh Berry committed suicide in February 2013. His family said that PTSD, combined with sub-par care by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, was what killed him.

Howard Berry has rallied on behalf of Fort Hood shooting victims, survivors and their families, and voiced general discontent with the VA.

“I’ve been lied to from the White House to the outhouse,” he said. “I’ve had the same questions I had the day my son died. They’ve never been answered.”
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Hasan's Victims Will Finally Get Benefits

Fort Hood attack Purple Heart recipients to get added benefits 
Reuters
April 16, 2015 (Reuters) -

The U.S. Army said on Thursday it will provide additional benefits to the dozens of soldiers awarded Purple Heart medals stemming from a 2009 shooting rampage by an Army psychiatrist at the Fort Hood Army base in central Texas.

The Army also said it would award the Purple Heart medal to a soldier who was killed and another who was wounded in a 2009 attack on a recruiting station in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Three-dozen Purple Heart medals were awarded last week at Fort Hood to wounded survivors and relatives of those killed in the shooting rampage by then-Army Major Nidal Hasan following years of lobbying by politicians and lawyers. read more here

Soldiers and Families Receive Purple Hearts

Fort Hood Shooting Victims, Families Receive Medals
Department of Defense
By Heather Graham-­Ashley 3rd Corps and Fort Hood
FORT HOOD, Texas
April 11, 2015

Jeffrey and Sheryll Pearson look at the portrait of their son, Army Pfc. Michael Pearson, before the Purple Heart and Defense of Freedom award ceremony on Fort Hood, Texas, April 10, 2015. The event honored the 13 people killed and more than 30 injured in a gunman’s 2009 shooting rampage on the base.
U.S. Army photo by Daniel Cernero

After nearly six years and a legislative wording change, shooting victims from the Nov. 5, 2009, attack at Fort Hood were recognized during a Purple Heart and Defense of Freedom medal award ceremony here yesterday.

“Hundreds of lives have been woven together by this single day of valor and loss,” Army Lt. Gen. Sean MacFarland, 3rd Corps and Fort Hood commanding general, told the soldiers, civilians and families gathered for the somber occasion.

Victims and family members of the fallen from that tragic day at the ceremony received their medals. MacFarland, joined by Army Secretary John McHugh, presented Purple Hearts and Secretary of Defense Medals for the Defense of Freedom.

Thirteen people were killed in the shooting at Fort Hood’s Soldier Readiness Processing Center that day. Another 31 were wounded by gunfire. The gunman was convicted and sentenced to death in September 2013.

“We honor the memories of the 13 souls laid to eternal rest and pay tribute to their sacrifice,” MacFarland said. “We also remember the acts of courage and selflessness by soldiers and civilians which prevented an even greater calamity from occurring that day.”
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Fort Hood: Congress Expanded Eligibility For Purple Heart

Army Approves Purple Hearts for Fort Hood Shooting Victims

From a U.S. Army News Release

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 2015 – Army Secretary John M. McHugh announced today that he has approved awarding the Purple Heart and its civilian counterpart, the Secretary of Defense Medal for the Defense of Freedom, to victims of a 2009 shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, following a change in the medals' eligibility criteria mandated by Congress.

Thirteen people were killed and more than 30 were wounded in the attack by Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, who was convicted in August 2013, of 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder.

"The Purple Heart's strict eligibility criteria had prevented us from awarding it to victims of the horrific attack at Fort Hood," McHugh explained. "Now that Congress has changed the criteria, we believe there is sufficient reason to allow these men and women to be awarded and recognized with either the Purple Heart or, in the case of civilians, the Defense of Freedom Medal. It's an appropriate recognition of their service and sacrifice."

Law Expanded Eligibility

Under a provision of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2015, Congress expanded the eligibility for the Purple Heart by redefining what should be considered an attack by a "foreign terrorist organization" for purposes of determining eligibility for the Purple Heart. The legislation states that an event should now be considered an attack by a foreign terrorist organization if the perpetrator of the attack "was in communication with the foreign terrorist organization before the attack" and "the attack was inspired or motivated by the foreign terrorist organization."

In a review of the Fort Hood incident and the new provisions of law, the Army determined that there was sufficient evidence to conclude Hasan "was in communication with the foreign terrorist organization before the attack," and that his radicalization and subsequent acts could reasonably be considered to have been "inspired or motivated by the foreign terrorist organization."

Previous criteria required a finding that Hasan had been acting at the direction of a foreign terrorist organization.

Identifying and Notifying Those Now Eligible

McHugh directed Army officials to identify soldiers and civilians now eligible for the awards as soon as possible, and to contact them about presentation of the awards. Soldiers receiving the Purple Heart automatically qualify for combat-related special compensation upon retirement. Recipients also are eligible for burial at Arlington National Cemetery.

Following his 2013 conviction, Hasan was sentenced to death by a general court-martial. He is incarcerated at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, while post-trial and appellate processes continue.

After Fort Hood Massacre Soldiers May Finally Get Justice

House Passes Fort Hood Purple Heart Legislation
Senate expected to pass bill, pass to President Obama
NBC 5 News
December 4, 2014

Congressman Roger Williams (R-TX25) and Congressman John Carter (R-TX31) released a statement Thursday saying the House was sending legislation to the Senate that will make victims of the 2009 shooting at Fort Hood eligible for the Purple Heart.

According to the statement, the Senate is supportive of the House legislation and is expected to pass the bill next week and send it on to President Barack Obama.

The language providing those injured in the massacre Purple Heart status was included in the FY15 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) conference agreement.

The NDAA adjusts the Purple Heart criteria so that service members and civilians who experience an attack inspired by terrorism, receive the appropriate awards and recognition, the statement said. The language awards the Purple Heart to service members who are victims of an attack that was inspired or motivated by a U.S. State Department-designated foreign terrorist organization.
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We face it all with a blend of bitterness and hope for justice. Hope that the American public will care enough when they know what has been going on to actually do something instead of settling for anything as if it is better than nothing. 

Denton native Zackary Filip, who was named 2010 Soldier of the Year by Army Times, said he was harassed and belittled when he sought help with his post-traumatic stress disorder at the Fort Hood Warrior Transition Unit.
(Vernon Bryant/Staff Photographer)

Fort Hood Survivor: No. 14 little chance medics attached to his survival

Survived the unthinkable, held on to recover and now, healing! Fabulous story of next chapter.

For Fort Hood victim, dinner with shooter's cousin was uplifting
Post-Bulletin
By MATTHEW STOLLE
Published: May 7, 2014

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Patrick and Jessica Zeigler have traveled a long and harrowing road together these last four years.

On the day he was shot in a mass shooting at Fort Hood near five years ago, Zeigler's wounds — including a bullet wound to the skull — were instantly considered by medics as placing him beyond any possibility of recovery. He was assigned a number — No. 14 —indicating what little chance medics attached to his survival.

But in one of those expectation-defying moments that have characterized his recovery so far, Zeigler struck up a conversation with the medic.

"She started laughing and crying, and said, 'I have to save him,'" Jessica said in an earlier story.

Twenty percent of his brain was removed and a metal plate the size of a baseball is now part of his skull. The first year of his recovery was simply fighting for his life. After that, it was relearning the basics and starting over from scratch, like walking and dressing himself. Initially paralyzed on the left side, Zeigler had to learn how to do everything with his right hand.

Then there was the process of coming to terms with such a senseless and indiscriminate act of violence. Jessica said that when she went to the military trial for shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and saw him for the first time in person, her reaction to him was not what she had expected.

Unlike the menacing portraits of him on television, Hasan didn't look evil. She was later to told by Hasan's cousin, Nader Hasan, that growing up, Hasan was called Homer Simpson because he was this "dopey, nerdy guy."
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Fort Hood Colonel Facebook post: Time to move on from shooting?

Move on? Why because brass did?

Sure, move on so that no one has to be held accountable for allowing this "man" to be promoted instead of booted out before it happened. So that no one has to compensate the soldiers and families for what this "man" did to them.

So that no one will start asking questions about how many others this "man" betrayed when he was supposed to be taking care of their mental health issues.

Move on? Maybe if the families got justice that would be possible but since they are stuck where they are, Americans should never just allow the Army to move on!

Army Commander Suggests Americans ‘Move On’ From 2009 Fort Hood Shooting
Commander apologizes for “private comments in a public place”
NBC
By Scott Friedman
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014

That decision has prevented some of the victims from receiving thousands of dollars in medical and retirement benefits.

Munley and others want the Pentagon to reclassify the attack.

“It’s about getting the benefits that they deserve so that they can live the rest of their lives and be OK,” said Munley.

A top United States Army Colonel has angered some of the victims of the 2009 Fort Hood attack after he turned to social media criticizing an NBC 5 Investigates’ Freedom of Information Act request asking for documents related to the shooting.

In February, Col. Nathan Banks wrote on his personal Facebook page: “Let’s move on America, I did.”

Kim Munley is the former Fort Hood police officer who helped end the attack by firing at the gunman, Nidal Hasan.

In a recent interview with NBC 5 Investigates Munley said, “I think it’s insulting for anyone who represents or wears that uniform to ask anyone to forget about Nov. 5, 2009.”

Munly expressed that she and other victims have had a hard time moving on and she is disheartened by Banks’ comments.

The 2009 gunbattle with Hasan also left Munley wounded outside the building where 13 soldiers died and nearly three dozen others were injured.

Among the survivors was Staff Sgt. Shawn Manning, who was shot six times in the 2009 massacre and is still recovering.

“If the Army was interested in allowing us to "move on" they should think about finally declaring the shooting a terrorist attack and recognizing the ultimate sacrifice that so many made for their country that day," Manning said.
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Linking Fort Hood shooting to PTSD hurts vets trying to heal

Linking Fort Hood shooting to PTSD hurts vets trying to heal, says Dakota Meyer
FOX News
By Robert Gearty
Published April 04, 2014

“It’s putting a label on all veterans that veterans are psychotic or mentally unstable and they're going to shoot up places. And they’re not."
- Dakota Meyer, Medal of Honor recipient

Linking the Fort Hood shooting to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder only hurts American service members struggling to process their war experiences and make their way back in the civilian world, Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer told FoxNews.com.

Meyer, a Marine who battled PTSD after coming home from Afghanistan, where he risked his life to recover the remains of three fallen brothers in arms, winced when he heard some reports attributing Army Spec. Ivan Lopez's Wednesday rampage to the condition. Lopez gunned down three fellow soldiers, wounded 16 and then killed himself when a military cop confronted him.

“Going out and shooting your own friends, your own people, that’s not PTSD,” Meyer, the youngest Medal of Honor recipient in history, told FoxNews.com. “I don’t know what the word is for it. It’s close to psychotic.

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Spc. Ivan A. Lopez 15 years in National Guards plus Fort Hood

Media talked about two tours in Iraq but now it comes out that Lopez spent 15 years in the National Guards.

Why did he do it?
NBC News
Alex Johnson

The base conducts random compliance checks, the Defense Department said. But they're of limited use when dealing with a facility with more than 40,000 active-duty service members, almost 20,000 civilian and contract employees, and tens of thousands of military retirees.

With the U.S. Army leading the investigation — not civilian agencies — the public may never know all the details of this week's deadly shootings at Fort Hood, Texas. But investigators are likely looking to answer these questions:

What Triggered the Rampage?

Military authorities and law enforcement officials say it's too early to know why Spc. Ivan A. Lopez opened fire Wednesday, killing three fellow service members and wounding 16 others before committing suicide.

The base commander, Lt. Gen. Mark Milley, has said several times that nothing has been ruled out but that it appeared the incident had nothing to do with radicalism or terrorism.

Lopez was also transferred to a transportation company at Fort Hood just two months ago after having spent 15 years in National Guard and Army infantry regiments. But no indication has yet emerged that he was unhappy about the change of assignment.
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Female MP ended shooting at Fort Hood

Fort Hood shooting leaves 4 dead, 16 wounded
Stars and Stripes
By Jennifer Hlad and Toshio Suzuki
Published: April 2, 2014

According to Milley, the soldier was currently being evaluated for PTSD and investigators were looking at reports of a self-reported traumatic brain injury from serving four months in Iraq in 2011.

A soldier opened fire with a semi-automatic pistol Wednesday at Fort Hood — the scene of a mass shooting in 2009 — killing three servicemembers and wounding 16 others before fatally shooting himself.

The suspect, who had recently transferred to the central Texas base, began shooting at about 4 p.m. CDT, according to Lt. Gen. Mark Milley, commanding general of Fort Hood. He was assigned to the 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary).

The gunman entered two buildings — the medical and transportation brigades — and also fired his pistol from a vehicle, according to Milley.

“The shooter is dead,” said Milley during his news conference at the base. There is no indication of the shooting being terrorism related but nothing has been formally ruled out, he said.

The violence ended after 15 or 20 minutes, when a female military police officer engaged the suspect, who then shot himself in the head.

"It was clearly heroic, what she did," said Milley of the officer, who added he expects nothing else of his military police.
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Fort Hood widow of massacre fears losing home over taxes

Fort Hood widow fears losing house due to taxes
Associated Press
By BAILEY ELISE McBRIDE
Tuesday, March 25, 201

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The widow of a soldier killed in the Fort Hood shooting could get relief from a $6,000 tax bill under a measure Oklahoma legislators are considering that would grant some families benefits similar to those given after acts of terrorism.

Jennifer Hunt, 30, had been married just short of three months when her husband, Jason, was killed in the rampage at Fort Hood on Nov. 5, 2009, when a U.S. Army major fatally shot 13 people and injured more than 30 others.

“He joined the Army after high school and did a tour in Iraq and it was there that he re-enlisted for six more years on his 21st birthday so that he could continue to serve,” President Barack Obama said of Hunt at a memorial shortly after the shooting.

Jason Hunt, 22, was preparing for a deployment to Iraq. He and Jennifer had recently purchased a house in Fort Hood, and Jennifer and their three children were preparing to move there.
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Pentagon to review military medals including Fort Hood victims

Pentagon reviews will focus on military medals
The Associated Press
Published: March 20, 2014
12 minutes ago

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has launched three separate reviews on how military medals are awarded, in the face of broad criticism over the inability to recognize heroism in incidents such as the Fort Hood shootings and aborted plans to create a new award for drone pilots.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel signed a letter Thursday formally ordering a comprehensive yearlong study in military awards, saying it will primarily focus on whether the department adequately recognizes all levels of combat valor and if the award processes are appropriate.

In comments to Congress last week, Hagel said that as the U.S. comes out of its longest war, it's an appropriate time to do a complete review of all military decorations.

"As we scale back combat operations in Afghanistan at the end of this year, it is imperative that we use the lessons learned from 13 years of combat experience to improve the Department of Defense decorations and awards program," Hagel said in his letter to the Joint Chiefs and senior Pentagon leaders Thursday.
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Fort Hood Shooting hero helping victims and families

Fort Hood Shooting hero helping victims and families
KXXV
By John Elizondo
Posted: Mar 14, 2014

KILLEEN
One of the heroes in the Fort Hood Shooting is looking to help the victims and their families with financial help and expanding awareness of the tragic event.

Kim Munley, the woman who shot Nidal Hasan, says beyond Texas, most people don't know or remember the shooting. She says since moving from Texas to North Carolina, she is now doing her part to remind people about the tragedy that took place at Fort Hood.

It has been four and a half years since the shooting, and victims and their families say they have not seen the benefits they deserve. That is because the attack was controversially classified as 'workplace violence' and not 'an act of terror.'

Munley, a retired Fort Hood police sergeant, says this is not right.

"The whole world knows that it was a terrorist attack. The whole world knows the link between Hasan and Al-awlaki and his extremist views. So it is a no brainer, they just need to make this wrong a right, and they need to do this soon," Munley said.

After so many years, Munley says the wait makes it frustrating for those affected by the attack. She says something needed to be done, so she created her own non-profit organization to help those victims in need.

"So if I can make up by doing this non-profit and spreading the awareness then you know...nothing is going to make up for what happened that day, but if I can help in any way to make their life a little bit easier that is the goal of establishing the non-profit," Munley said.
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Senate Supports Purple Heart for Fort Hood Victims

Senate Supports Purple Heart for Fort Hood Victims
Military.com
by Richard Sisk
Dec 13, 2013

The Senate has backed a proposal that could lead to the issuing of Purple Hearts to victims of the Fort Hood massacre and an attack on a Little Rock recruiting station.

The proposed National Defense Authorization Act legislation included a section directing the service secretaries to review whether the Fort Hood and Little Rock victims rated the Purple Heart, the nation's oldest military award.

Under the bill, the secretaries would have to report back within six months and specifically address the question of whether the victims were "killed or wounded as a result of an act of an enemy of the United States," a requirement for the award of the Purple Heart.

Thirteen people, including a pregnant soldier, were killed and 32 were wounded in the Nov. 5, 2009, gun rampage by Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, at Fort Hood, Texas.
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HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO DO THE RIGHT THING?

A year after Sandy Hook mass murder, police officer faces job loss due to PTSD

UPDATE

Newtown Police Chief Withdraws Termination Recommendation
NBC News
Tuesday, Dec 17, 2013

A veteran Newtown police officer who has not returned to work since the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School last year is no longer in danger of losing his job.

Newtown Police Chief Michael Kehoe has withdrawn his recommendation to terminate the employment of Patrol Officer Thomas Bean.

"I am hereby withdrawing my request and recommendation for the termination of Officer Thomas Bean," Kehoe wrote in a letter to the Newtown Board of Commissioners on December 5.

On Aug. 9, Kehoe submitted a letter to the board recommending that Bean be fired for not returning to work after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in December 2012.
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Police Officer With PTSD Awaits Departure Talks
Newtown Bee
By Andrew Gorosko
Friday, December 13, 2013

A Newtown police officer who responded to the 12/14 shooting incident at Sandy Hook School, and who has been off work since then due to subsequent post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), said that the town has not yet contacted him to negotiate the terms of his expected departure from the police department.

Officer Thomas Bean, 38, who has been a police officer for the past 13 years, said December 5 that he has received no word on the matter from the town.

Officer Bean has said that the intensity of the 12/14 incident had such an emotional effect on him that he no longer would be able to function as a police officer.

In November, Officer Bean and the Newtown Police Union publicized the officer’s situation in seeking to have the town negotiate with the labor union on the officer’s departure. Officer Bean currently is receiving half-pay from the town while on long-term disability.

Town officials have had nothing to say on the topic, declining comment and terming the issue a personnel matter.

In an August 9 letter to Officer Bean, Police Chief Michael Kehoe wrote, in part, that under the terms of the police department’s rules and regulations, termination of Officer Bean’s employment is warranted and would be recommended to the Police Commission.

The job termination plan stems from the town’s receipt of a May 29 letter from Officer Bean’s physician that stated that he is “permanently and completed disabled from [the] duties of a police officer,” Chief Kehoe wrote.
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Battle over benefits for family of soldier killed at Fort Hood

Battle over benefits for family of soldier killed at Fort Hood
KHOU 11 News
by Rucks Russell
Posted on December 5, 2013

HOUSTON -- The spouse of a fallen soldier choked back tears Thursday as she glanced for the first time at his name etched in granite at Houston’s Fallen Warriors Memorial.

“It’s really an honor to be here and to see everyone do something like this means so much,” said Cristie Greene, with her two daughters standing by her side.

Greene’s husband, Army Specialist Frederick Greene, is honored at the site along with hundreds of other service personnel killed in Iraq or Afghanistan.

But because of where Greene died, the government sees things differently.

Greene was one of 13 people shot to death at Fort Hood four years ago by army Major Nidal Hasan.

The victims’ deaths were classified as workplace violence-related as opposed to “killed in action.”

That means surviving family members don't receive the same life insurance, tax breaks and other benefits.
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Sandy Hook massacre leaves Cop with PTSD and job threat

Is this yet one more case of superior stupidity regarding PTSD? Seems like it. Why else would a superior threaten a cop with being fired?

Officer afflicted with PTSD at Sandy Hook deserves to be treated with compassion
Danbury News Times
December 3, 2013

The mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown on Dec. 14, 2012, took the lives of 20 first-graders and six educators and forever changed the lives of family members, first responders, educators, students and other community residents.

One of those first responders, Newtown Police Officer Thomas Bean, was so greatly affected by what he experienced at the horrific scene in Sandy Hook that day that he has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and has been unable to return to work.

Bean, a 12-year veteran of the force, has been declared 100 percent disabled and is now collecting half of his salary under a long-term disability policy negotiated between the Newtown police union and the town.

Unfortunately, Newtown Police Chief Michael Kehoe earlier this year informed Bean that he would not be able to continue to receive the disability payment for much longer, even though he was disabled in the line of duty.

Instead, Kehoe told Bean, he had three choices: resign, retire at a significantly reduced benefit from what he would receive after the normal 25-year retirement mark, or get fired. Kehoe has since recommended to the Newtown Police Commission that Bean be terminated.
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Army needs to reclassify Fort Hood massacre for families

Army Considers Reclassifying Fort Hood Shooting, Pending Review
Reclassifying Fort Hood attack as international terrorism could allow Purple Hearts, benefits to victims
NBCNews
By Scott Friedman
Friday, Nov 22, 2013

NBC 5 Investigates has learned the United States Army plans to launch another review of the Fort Hood shooting to see if it was an act of “international terrorism. “ The result of that review could have a big impact on the victims who’ve been denied Purple Heart medals and the financial benefits that come with them.

In a letter dated Nov. 1 to South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson, U.S. Army Secretary John McHugh said, “the intelligence community considers Major Hasan to be a 'homegrown violent extremist' - a person who may engage in ideologically - motivated terrorist activities …"

Shawn Manning was shot six times by Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist who’s been sentenced to death for gunning down 32 people and killing 13 at Fort Hood in 2009.
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