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At Fort Hood, Pain, Questions

The Army town of Killeen struggles to understand the tragedy

By Kate Schwartz, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 6, 2009 8:30 AM CST

(Newser) – 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,... Read full story »

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