Why Fort Hood happened


	Why Fort Hood happened

aperiozar

11-9-2009 7:20 PM

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aperiozar says:

Read how the evil of turning young men into killers eventually affects their sanity.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/028c5d38-316d-4aa1-aa8f-a57fee0610ae/D3AC4AE1-6D1B-4253-801B-49AAFEA09534/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/articles/39/Making-sense-of-the-tragedy-at-Fort-Hood.html" href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/articles/39/Making-sense-of-the-tragedy-at-Fort-Hood.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.aljazeera.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/articles/39/Making-sense-of-the-tragedy-at-Fort-Hood.html"><FONT face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">When I read of the circumstances surrounding Maj. Hasan's recent life, I broke into a cold sweat. His nightmare was my nightmare. I had been down the same road as he forty years earlier. </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/articles/39/Making-sense-of-the-tragedy-at-Fort-Hood.html"><P><FONT face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">Like Major Hasan, I had been trained by our military to work with returning combat veterans suffering from PTSD. In my case, it was the Philadelphia Naval Hospital in the wake of the Tet Offensive and stressed-out Marines were arriving in droves every day. </FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/articles/39/Making-sense-of-the-tragedy-at-Fort-Hood.html"><P><FONT face="verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">Day after day, I listened to horrific stories. One Marine had shot his best friend in the back of his head and couldn't get his buddy's blood off his uniform. Another had "blown away" an innocent mother and child and had transformed himself into a German shepherd to avoid the responsibility for his action. </FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/articles/39/Making-sense-of-the-tragedy-at-Fort-Hood.html">I didn't know what to do as, I am sure, Major Hasan didn't know either. The real horrors that we had been living and working with so long tumbled over us and screamed at us to do something</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/articles/39/Making-sense-of-the-tragedy-at-Fort-Hood.html">War just isn't worth it and this shooting proves it.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D3AC4AE1-6D1B-4253-801B-49AAFEA09534/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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