At Fort Hood, Pain, Questions

The Army town of Killeen struggles to understand the tragedy
By Kate Seamons,  Newser Staff
Posted Nov 6, 2009 8:30 AM CST
At Fort Hood, Pain, Questions
Beverley Clark wipes away tears following a prayer for the victims of a shooting at the Army base Fort Hood as she watches television for updates at the Survivor Outreach Services building in Fort Hood.   (AP Photo/Killeen Daily Herald, Steven Doll)

An Army community painfully accustomed to death on foreign shores, Killeen's 86,000 residents are struggling to understand this very different kind of tragedy. "I kind of thought after 9/11, it was only a matter of time before there was a terrorist attack here," Sharon Gregory, who lives a few blocks from Fort Hood, tells the Austin American-Statesman. "I almost wish it had been." (More Fort Hood stories.)

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