The People at Fort Hood (Updated x4)
[Guest post by DRJ]
The stories of the Fort Hood victims are starting to be told:
Kham Xiong, 23, of St. Paul, Minn., a 2004 graduate of Community of Peace Academy, enjoyed hunting and fishing. “The sad part is that he had been taught and been trained to protect and to fight. Yet it’s such a tragedy that he did not have the opportunity to protect himself and the base,” his father, Chor Xiong, told KSTP-TV through an interpreter.
Sgt. Amy Krueger, 29, of Kiel, Wis., joined the Army after the 2001 terrorist attacks and had vowed to take on Osama bin Laden, her mother, Jeri Krueger said.
Spc. Jason Dean Hunt, 22, of Frederick, Okla., went into the military after graduating from Tipton High School in 2005 and had gotten married just two months ago, his mother, Gale Hunt, said. He had served 3 1/2 years in the Army, including a stint in Iraq.
Pfc. Aaron Thomas Nemelka, 19, of the Salt Lake City suburb of West Jordan, Utah, chose to join the Army instead of going on a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, his uncle Christopher Nemelka said.
Pfc. Michael Pearson, 21, of the Chicago suburb of Bolingbrook, Ill., quit what he figured was a dead-end furniture company job to join the military about a year ago.
Francheska Velez, 21, of Chicago, was pregnant and preparing to return home. Velez had recently returned from deployment in Iraq and had sought a lifelong career in the Army.
Michael Grant Cahill, a 62-year-old physician assistant, suffered a heart attack two weeks ago and returned to work at the base as a civilian employee after taking just one week off for recovery, said his daughter Keely Vanacker. “He survived that. He was getting back on track, and he gets killed by a gunman,” Vanacker said, her words bare with shock and disbelief.
Seven stories of lives cut short, with six more yet untold, and thirty [thirty-eight ?] stories of lives changed because of this shooting. There’s also the story of Sgt. Kimberly Munley, the police officer who responded within 3 minutes and wounded the shooter “four times despite being shot herself.”
But, unfortunately, the real story is Nisan Malik Hasan, the man who reportedly screamed Allahu Akbar before he began shooting:
“The Army psychiatrist who went on a shooting rampage that left 13 people dead and 31 wounded at a Texas Army base yesterday screamed “Allahu Akbar” before he opened fire, witnesses said.
Maj Nidal Malik Hasan strode into a Fort Hood deployment center, shouting “God is great” in Arabic, before targeting military personnel and warning civilians to get out of the way.
He killed 13 people and wounded 31 others …”
The shooter is a coward but he isn’t the only one. Ralph Peters is right. Politically correct military, media and citizens who won’t stand up to Muslim terrorism are cowards, too.
— DRJ
UPDATE: Hasan has been moved to Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio. I’m sure Hasan will receive competent care but, fortunately, there’s no PC-talk at Brooke:
“Hospital spokeswoman Maria Gallegos says Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is in stable condition in the intensive care unit at the hospital on Fort Sam Houston outside San Antonio, about 150 miles southwest of Fort Hood.
Gallegos said Friday that the “shooter is here.” She would not provide more details.”
UPDATE 2: According to this Houston Chronicle article, Colorado Senator Udall said Senators were told in a briefing that there are 38 wounded.
UPDATE 3 — ABC has a report on some of the wounded:
UPDATE 4: More about Sgt Munley — Munley is a certified firearm instructor and had also completed advanced rapid response training. She and her partner were the first law enforcement to arrive at the scene and she encountered the shooter as she came around a corner. Munley, who is 5’2″ tall, was shot at least 3 times.
That makes it 14, he killed Velez’ unborn child.
Shep is so trying to make this about paranoia, harrassment, anything but what it is.
A while back, not long after I started hanging around here, happyfeet called Shep a climate change faerie, and ever since I would always here that and laugh whenever Shep came on. Today has wiped that out. Anger, disgust, and utter disappointment instead.
Matador (e01f85) — 11/6/2009 @ 4:33 pmDead-on. Thanks for saying that. Another thing – Someone needs to bitch-slap these newscasters painting a picture of harassment on poor old Hasan. Harassment is seeing you door-gunner blown apart by an Islamic terrorist IED, then being sent back state-side, and then having the United States Army refer you to psychiatrist named “Major Nadal Malik Hasan”!!! WTF.
Steve (e5c232) — 11/6/2009 @ 4:37 pmI’ve updated the post regarding Hasan’s location and status.
DRJ (dff2ca) — 11/6/2009 @ 5:02 pmI’ve also added Update 2, a report that there are 38 wounded.
DRJ (dff2ca) — 11/6/2009 @ 5:13 pmI wonder how long before someone in the MSM digs into the past life of Sgt. Kimberly Munley to try to prove she hates Muslims.
Huey (b957d9) — 11/6/2009 @ 5:13 pmSo horribly sad.
Especially because they were sacrificed on the altar of political correctness.
How many more beautiful sons and daughters have to be killed in cold blood before we come to our senses?
Patricia (b05e7f) — 11/6/2009 @ 5:28 pmA muslim blood sucking leech who, like most Middle Eastern Sand Jockies, will change allainces and loyalties to suit their immediate needs. He gained an education from The US and when it came time to pay the piper, this piece of rag-wearing trash decided , like a wild dog that he is, to bite the hand that feeds him.
PITCHFORKSANDTORCHES (8165c3) — 11/6/2009 @ 5:34 pmWhen are we going to wake up and stand up for ourselves? There is nothing wrong with being a God Fearing nation. Judeo-Christian values found and caused this and many other countries to flourish.
Cast a clear eye on the history of the Middle East and tell me the great works of humanity of Islam?
As inhumane as it sounds the greater good of humanity would be served if we put down this rabid dog of a philosphy.
The little president man says we shouldn’t jump to conclusions, Patricia.
happyfeet (f62c43) — 11/6/2009 @ 5:34 pmPresident Obama only had 1:35 seconds to devote to this today before extolling his own virtue at signing a new bill to save the economy. I’m not sure what I expected from him – maybe something that resembled strong, unwavering leadership and making a stand, I dunno, but somehow I
Dana (e9ba20) — 11/6/2009 @ 5:47 pmexpectedhoped more than what I got…but perhaps he was too busy at the hospital visiting the wounded and the amazing Sgt. Munley.I wonder if Hasan was wearing some kind of body armor.
DRJ (dff2ca) — 11/6/2009 @ 5:49 pmI’ve added an ABC report on some of the wounded in Update 3.
DRJ (dff2ca) — 11/6/2009 @ 5:52 pmHey, commenter #7….you’re on to it dude.
Time to re-start The Crusades.
Kill’em all. They don’t deserve to live in this Christian World, eh.
And thanks again Patterico for fostering such God-fearing and all-American commentary.
Down with those Muslims’, uh, “philosophy.”
You own commenter #7, Patterico. Never mind that you think you’re above all that. You are all that.
Larry Reilly (45c8f2) — 11/6/2009 @ 7:07 pmLarry – You are “en fuego” tonight. Absolutely fascinating. I could read your comments all night. Putz.
daleyrocks (718861) — 11/6/2009 @ 7:14 pm# 12 Study your history bonehead. The Crusades were preceded by SOMETHING. Hint – Did you think Mohammadens just magically appeared like pink hearts in your freakin Lucky Charms?
Steve (a83f28) — 11/6/2009 @ 7:40 pmLarry – #7 Sounds like one of your kind who comes over from time to time and does a bad job with overheated rhetoric trying to make the site look bad. Just sayin’.
daleyrocks (718861) — 11/6/2009 @ 7:49 pmLarry,
This is my post, not Patterico’s, and Patterico probably hasn’t even read the comments here. As for me, I don’t share the conclusion of comment 7 although I do believe we should take this incident seriously.
In addition, I’m added Update 4 with more information about Sgt. Munley.
DRJ (dff2ca) — 11/6/2009 @ 8:34 pmLarry:
You’re going to blame Patterico or DRJ for some post that an idiot made who capitalized his user name?
You’ve officially lost all semblance of respectability, as if you had it before.
Ag80 (3d1543) — 11/6/2009 @ 8:47 pmDRJ – Actually I’d like to check IP records for #7 and Larry Reilly’s turd dropping at #12. Would not shock me to find they match.
Have Blue (854a6e) — 11/6/2009 @ 8:53 pmThe blood on the floor is physical proof that PC kills. The ruling class places a higher value on not offending violence-prone demographic groups than on keeping innocent people safe.
Jack (2ff693) — 11/6/2009 @ 9:34 pmAlso does anyone happen to know if there was dancing in the streets and celebrations in the Islamic countries, as their was after 9/11? I don’t expect to hear of it on the MSM, if it happened.
Jack (2ff693) — 11/6/2009 @ 9:38 pmDear Larry Reilly:
Should you invite a hated in-law to your daughter’s wedding?
Etiquette says yes.
Dear Debby (3d1543) — 11/6/2009 @ 9:56 pmRE: Sgt.Munley….
The best defense is a good offense!
Black Jack would be proud.
AD - RtR/OS! (b8e0ad) — 11/6/2009 @ 10:30 pmKimberly Munley deserves the Medal of Freedom.
DCSCA (9d1bb3) — 11/7/2009 @ 4:06 amI was listening to Air America last night,(gathering enemy intel.) In reporting the story, they seemingly made every excuse in the world to justify the shooters actions. They blamed everyone except Obama & the shooter. It was sickening.
Stan Switek (d9d8ce) — 11/7/2009 @ 6:55 am“…gathering enemy intel…”
Hard to do when there is so little evident.
AD - RtR/OS! (89a0a7) — 11/7/2009 @ 7:03 amThe O would have been better off to ignore it, and claim that he didn’t want to be accused of undue command influence if questioned about that. This is just stepping in it. Some have been referring to this speech as “O’s Goat Moment”.
htom (9a087f) — 11/7/2009 @ 7:43 amRalph Peters himself has a lot of PC-related screwiness rattling around in his skull:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2006/09/fitzgerald-a-tribute-to-ralph-peters.html
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This is especially necessary in light of the dreamy idea that Occupied Iraq is not a whit different in its prospects from Occupied Germany or Occupied Japan after World War II — and that all those who claim differently must either be appeasers or Nay-Sayers, when in fact some of those Nay-Sayers want the “Light Unto the Muslim Nations” Project stopped not because they do not worry about Islam, but because they really worry about it.
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http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/007604.html
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…a Europe-hating, white-hating lunatic when it comes to broader issues of politics and culture. Remember, it was Peters who described the leading Islam critics such as Bat Ye’or and Robert Spencer (though he lacked the honesty to name them) as Nazi-like bigots eager to commit mass murder. In the FrontPage interview, he repeats his fixed idea that Europe is under absolutely no danger of Islamization, and that the very notion of Islam gaining power and spreading sharia in Europe is “nuts,” because the Europeans are natural-born mass killers who will wipe out the Muslims the moment they get really annoyed at them. So blindly hostile is he to Europe, that he cannot conceive of a real threat to Europe from Islam, because that would require that he view Europe’s situation with at least some degree of sympathetic understanding. (Worse, his ideas about Europe are now being treated respectfully by at least one prominent and respected neocon–see below.) Thus the following exchange: :
Question: This is, of course, all speculation, but if such a crackdown took place, what might it look like? How violent could it get? Perhaps most interesting, how might America and the rest of the world react? Could we face a stunning situation where one day America feels compelled to come to the rescue of persecuted Muslims in Western Europe?
Peters: I have no difficulty imagining a scenario in which American naval vessels and U.S. Marines are in European ports to evacuate Muslims expelled from their countries of residence.
He doesn’t actually say so, but his implication seems to be that the U.S. should take in the millions of innocent Muslims expelled by thuggish Europe, if the Muslim countries refuse to accept them.
icr (304f90) — 11/7/2009 @ 8:35 am(…)
This is the theme of his new novel, the war after armageddon, where Europe and America become very
bishop (996c34) — 11/7/2009 @ 10:14 amzenophobic after a series of nuclear attacks
I worked all last night on a fiber ring transition and while waiting in between steps was listening to BBC World.
They presented both sides to this issue, a conversation with one of Hasan’s muslim neighbors in TX, who said he saw nothing wrong with shooting down Americans who were just going to be sent to Iraq and Afghanistan to kill muslims; and a conversation with an islamic playwright who said only a fringe kook element would use this shooting as a means to criticize muslims, that no muslim put his faith before his country and that only stupid people would look at the religious aspects of this event.
No mention of who the people who died were, Hasan’s religious beliefs or the past incidents of muslim soldier violence against their comrades.
Unreal
harkin (f92f52) — 11/7/2009 @ 11:56 amI got this off of hot air
http://www.jrsalzman.com/post/2009/11/07/PTSD.aspx
This soldier who lost his arm, was treated at Walter Reed and actually suffers PTSD has some words for those who are saying Hasan suffered via his counseling sessions at Walter Reed…
He asks rhetorically why all the physical therapists etc. haven’t grabbed guns and run amok and posits that it is likely impossible to get PTSD from “sitting on your ass at Walter Reed”
Read it and pass it around.
SteveG (97b6b9) — 11/7/2009 @ 12:44 pm