Fort Hood Shooting Victims
Updated: Friday, 06 Nov 2009, 8:05 PM EST
Published : Friday, 06 Nov 2009, 2:13 PM EST

By MyFox National Reports

(MYFOX NATIONAL) - Below are the names of those confirmed as victims in the Fort Hood shooting. This list will be updated as additional victims are released.

The names of those killed:

Michael Grant Cahill, 65, of Cameron, Texas, had just returned to work as a physician assistant after suffering a heart attack. (AP)

Spc. Jason Dean Hunt, 22, of Tipton, Okla. was one of 12 soldiers killed. Known as J.D., Hunt was voted "most quiet" in his senior class. ( NewsOK.com )

Sgt. Amy Krueger, 29, of Kiel, Wis., was killed. The sergeant with the Madison, Wis.-based 467th Medical Detachment had arrived at Fort Hood on Tuesday and was scheduled to be deployed to Afghanistan in December. ( Herald Times Reporter )

Pfc. Aaron Thomas Nemelka, 19, of West Jordan, Utah, was scheduled to be deployed to Afghanistan in January, his family said in a statement. Nemelka had enlisted in the Army in October 2008, Utah National Guard Lt. Col. Lisa Olsen said. (AP)

Spc. Michael Pearson , 21, of Bolingbrook, Ill., was killed in the shooting. ( MyFoxChicago )

Francheska Velez, of Chicago, was killed in the shooting. She recently had returned from a tour of duty in Iraq. The 21-year-old was in the building where the shooting occurred filling out paperwork due to her pregnancy. ( MyFoxChicago )

Juanita Warman, 55, of Pittsburgh was a military physician assistant. ( Pittsburgh Post-Gazette )

Army Spc. Kham Xiong, 23, of St. Paul, Minn., died in the attack Thursday. Xiong graduated from St. Paul's Community of Peace Academy in 2004. He was at Ft. Hood preparing for a January deployment. ( MyFoxTwinCities )

The names of those wounded:

Amber Bahr, 19, was shot in the stomach but was in stable condition, said her mother, Lisa Pfund of Random Lake, Wis. (AP)

Spc. Keara Bono, 21, of the Army Reserve, called her mother from a hospital and said she had been shot in the back. ( MyFoxTwinCities )

Matthew Cook, son-in-law of Jamie and Scotty Casteel. Cook is from New York State and has been home from Iraq for about a year. "He's been shot in the abdomen and that's all we know," Jamie Casteel told The Associated Press.

Army 2nd Lt. Brandy Mason of Monessen, Penn., was injured during the shooting. ( Pittsburgh Post-Gazette )

This makes me so sad. Regardless of religous bullshit or not, this individual took it upon himself to destroy the lives of others and their families. I don't really care what his cause was...I just hope he pays for his horrible actions in the worst possible way. I hope the families find the strength to carry on and I will think of them much more than this scumbag.

Public Donations

November 06, 2009
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Release No. 20091106-03

Contact III Corps & Fort Hood Public Affairs Office
Tyler Broadway
Phone (254) 287-7823
E-mail tyler.broadway@us.army.mil
Christopher Haug
Phone (254) 287-9993
E-mail Christopher.haugsr@us.army.mil

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FORT HOOD, TX - Officials at this sprawling Central Texas Army post have announced opportunities for the public to donate to various agencies on the installation honoring the Soldiers and family members affected by the mass shooting on post yesterday.

Checks can be mailed to:

Chaplain's Fund Office
Bldg 44, 761st Tank Battalion Ave.
Fort Hood, TX 76544-5000

Checks should be made payable to "CTOF" (Chapel's Tithes and Offerings Fund) with a note on the memo line stating "Nov. 5 Tragedy."

Contributions on behalf of Fort Hood Soldiers can also be made to:

Fisher House
Bldg 36015, Fisher Lane
Ft Hood Texas 76544

If you have questions about the Fisher House operation, phone (254)286-7927 or (254)286-7929.

Donations can be made to Red Cross:

Killeen Red Cross
208 W. Ave. A,
Killeen, Texas 76541
Phone (254) 200-4400 or visit their website: www.waco.redcross.org

And finally, donations can be made to the USO at the following:

USO Fort Hood
Building # 1871, 50th St.
Fort Hood, Texas, 76544
Phone: (254) 768-2771 or visit their website at www.uso.org

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Originally posted by mental:
Y'all can talk till you're blue in the face about all the crap about the shooter, but I can tell you that my colleagues and I are much more concerned about helping those soldiers that are survivors of this event.

I ask that you please spend a bit of your time thinking of them and what might be a way to help them.

Mental....Mental Health Provider at Ft. Hood.

Thank you for your service in this time to those who carry the signed blank check.

May you and your fellow colleagues be blessed with strength for those who need it.

quote:

Originally posted by mental:
Y'all can talk till you're blue in the face about all the crap about the shooter, but I can tell you that my colleagues and I are much more concerned about helping those soldiers that are survivors of this event.

I ask that you please spend a bit of your time thinking of them and what might be a way to help them.

Mental....Mental Health Provider at Ft. Hood.

How to help?

Investigage all Muslims in the US military and then purge, yes purge, all who present the least security risk to other soldiers, airmen/women and sailors.
AND those who present a substantial security risk -- isolate them in military facilities where they can do no harm.

Yes, this is WAR!

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How about someone's eyes plucked out, arms and legs broken and twisted to extreme angles BEFORE they are beat to death? You need to come to the "cradle of civilization" and see how un-westernized Islam is practiced.

I haven't heard about them doing this in the US. I have heard of some "honor killings", but I've also heard about Americans raping and killing old ladies for the change in their pockets. I couldn't care less what they do in their own countries, what values they have and the type of justice they practice. In fact, how many times after a child molester is gruesomely executed do people here say "Gee, I wish we could do that here"?

I made a post a while back about a Muslim friend of mine who served in Vietnam through two tours, and whose dad was wounded in the Pacific in WWII while in the US Navy and whose son was killed in a car crash after joining the Army. His family has been here since before WWI. I didn't hear any responses. Does anyone have the balls to tell him he should be "sent back" because he's a Muslim?

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Originally posted by Solitar:


Investigage all Muslims in the US military and then purge, yes purge, all who present the least security risk to other soldiers, airmen/women and sailors.
AND those who present a substantial security risk -- isolate them in military facilities where they can do no harm.

Yes, this is WAR!

So kick out ALL muslims from the US Armed Forces, regardless of due process, whether they are loyal citizens, regardless of how they have served this country, shedding blood and sweat, selflessly going in harm's way so YOU don't have to, and damn those pesky inconvenient 'rights' in the process. Nope, nothing 'extremist' about that.

Funny how everybody here likes to 'support the troops', yet wants to instantly turn on and condemn a large proportion of them who are serving honorably just because of their religious affiliations. How 16th century of you.

Why stop at the military, then? If the "all muslims everywhere" line is what we are going after, lets just lock up or 'purge' all muslims from US society. That's where this line of 'reasoning' will naturally lead. If they can't be trusted in our armed services, they can't be trusted 'on the street'.


And what about the woman who shot and stopped him? Heck, she's female. We all "KNOW" that women have no place in law enforcement or military pursuits - they should be limited to clerical or secretarial work. This is a "man's job", after all, and everybody knows women can't hack this sort of work. Standards will slip so the women can qualify, and the services will be weaker because of it. See how ridiculous this "condemn a whole class of people based on the actions of a few" approach is?

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Originally posted by SigPhil:

I didn't hear any responses. Does anyone have the balls to tell him he should be "sent back" because he's a Muslim?

You won't hear it from me - good on him and his family. We need MORE like him here.

So i suppose these American soldiers should have been "purged" from the military according to some of you guys then?

They all have at least three things in common. They all were American citizens, they all made the ultimate sacrifice for their country, and they were all Muslims.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...n-musl_b_135964.html

http://www.voanews.com/english...m?moddate=2007-07-27

http://www.veteranstoday.com/article1621.html


I found the information on these three brave souls in less than 5 minutes with google.

Maybe if some of you did a little more research and a little less drum beating you would see how foolish some of the things you say are.

Kevin


Huh? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? Anyone want to attempt to argue this one with me?

Hound Dog,
Did you miss that which I now have bolded for you to maybe again read? If they are not a security risk, then no problem.

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Originally posted by Hound Dog:

quote:

Originally posted by Solitar:
Investigage all Muslims in the US military and then purge, yes purge, all who present the least security risk to other soldiers, airmen/women and sailors.
AND those who present a substantial security risk -- isolate them in military facilities where they can do no harm.

Yes, this is WAR!

So kick out ALL muslims from the US Armed Forces, regardless of due process, whether they are loyal citizens, regardless of how they have served this country, shedding blood and sweat, selflessly going in harm's way so YOU don't have to, and damn those pesky inconvenient 'rights' in the process. Nope, nothing 'extremist' about that.

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Originally posted by Solitar:
Hound Dog,
Did you miss that which I now have bolded for you to maybe again read? If they are not a security risk, then no problem.

quote:

Originally posted by Hound Dog:

quote:

Originally posted by Solitar:
Investigage all Muslims in the US military and then purge, yes purge, all who present the least security risk to other soldiers, airmen/women and sailors.
AND those who present a substantial security risk -- isolate them in military facilities where they can do no harm.

Yes, this is WAR!

So kick out ALL muslims from the US Armed Forces, regardless of due process, whether they are loyal citizens, regardless of how they have served this country, shedding blood and sweat, selflessly going in harm's way so YOU don't have to, and damn those pesky inconvenient 'rights' in the process. Nope, nothing 'extremist' about that.

NO, there is a VERY BIG PROBLEM. You said if they don't pose a significant security risk, you would PURGE THEM (after, of course, violating their rights by doing an intrusive search in violation of those pesky Constitutional Rights. Read your own post.

You generously limit prison for life only to those who, in your opinion, pose a risk to security.


Have you ever served your country in the armed forces? I certainly hope you wouldn't make these sweeping statements without knowing at least a little bit of what you speak from real experience. . . And you would deny the right to serve to those who don't meet YOUR expections of loyalty.

In the darkest hour, some idiot will say the darkest thing.

The "least security risk," like interned housewives of Japanese ancestry, or a gay Arab linguist, I'm guessing that for some people "swarthy" = "security risk."

Could we wait for the families to have a chance to bury the dead before going completely off the rails?

Aloha,

Didn't the US go thru something similar by rounding up and placeing Americans of Japanese Ancestry in "Internment Camps" and Stealing all their hard earned property? With 0 compensation.

Many proved their loyalty by enlisting and dieing in WWII.

My Uncle, all 5'3" was one of the ones who came home. I never heard him talk about his exprences.

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Many proved their loyalty by enlisting and dieing in WWII.

I believe many were also allowed to work in defense plants in the central states, away from the coasts.

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Originally posted by SigPhil:

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Many proved their loyalty by enlisting and dieing in WWII.

I believe many were also allowed to work in defense plants in the central states, away from the coasts.

Doesn't change the fact that their rights were stripped from them sibply based on a FALSE belief of where their loyalties would lie. . . The govt 'knew' best, of course.

I read some old newspaper columns from the 1880's. They were advocating sending all the Poles "back where they came from" because the stereotype was that they'd be loyal to the Pope and not the United States, and that they were all a bunch of anarchists. I believe this was during an economic depression, maybe around 1883. Also around that time I think there were several anarchist bombings around the country.

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Originally posted by Solitar:
...
Investigage all Muslims
...

Without due process to U.S. citizen?

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...
then purge, yes purge, all who present the least security risk to other soldiers, airmen/women and sailors.
AND those who present a substantial security risk -- isolate them in military facilities where they can do no harm.
...

And, how would we know who presents a least or substantial security risk?
Unconstitutional questioning? Or, look at their skin color and see what their enlistment paper says on their religion block?

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... this is WAR!

If abolishing Bill of Rights would help war, would you go for that too?

IBTL

ya know, a lot of the media has been focusing on a few 'facts' in this case. Who knows if it was his real motivaton, but it is what we have at this point.

A) His Islamic religion was made fun of
B) He wasn't happy in the Army
C) He was unsuccessful in getting out of the army
D) He was afraid of being deployed to a combat zone
E) He was afraid that he would have to fight and kill Muslims

Lets look at these...

A) Well imagine that, this is America, where free speech rules. Lets compare the number of Christian jokes to Muslim jokes and see how you stack up. This is a bullshit excuse if its real.

B) Imagine that. You weren't happy in the Army. Neither was Klinger but YOU weren't drafted, YOU volunteered. This is a bullshit excuse if its real.

C) IMAGINE that... after spending $500K on your medical education, the Army just might not be willing to let you out of your committment because you suddenly decided you don't like being a Dr. there. This is a bullshit excuse if its real.

D) No shit, any soldier that I have ever met has been concerned about being deployed to a combat zone. This is a chickenshit excuse.

E) Hey, here's a clue. You're a DOCTOR, and a Major, not an infantry private. Doctors aren't issued weapons and told to kill the enemy, especially psychologists. This is the biggest bullshit/chickenshit excuse.

Oh, and as an added bonus there Sparky, you didn't attack the people who made fun of you, you didn't attack the guy who told you that you can't leave, the person that told you would be deployed, or anyone else connected with your 'suffering'. You chose instead to gun down enlisted personnel in their final steps before deployment.

I don't care what anyone says about ideology, this religion against that, what the Bible or Quoran says, or what Muslims or Christians did 800 years ago.

This was mass murder. It was an act of terrorism. A uniformed soldier firing on fellow soldiers is a traitor.

So there you have it; he is a mass murdering terrorist traitor. End of story.

You keep saying "excuse" but I don't think that's as correct as "cause". The guy was nuts. Any one of those seemingly innocuous reasons could have been enough to set off this nut, let alone several in combination.

I bet if he would have been told: "Ok, we believe you'd be a better asset to the Army here at home, and you don't have to go to bad old Afghanistan, and you can finish your 20 years and start collecting your pension" he wouldn't have gone off then. Would that be the sign of a radical Islamic terrorist? A guy who decides not to kill a bunch of Americans after all if he gets to stay in America and watch "Price Is Right" every day while collecting his paycheck?

This guy was a nutjob who did his best to look like a put-upon Muslim/Arab because it was better than going out looking like a solider turned coward who couldn't deal with doing his duty.