Ft. Hood: Details of the Victims Emerge; an Idealistic Group

Wall Street Journal ^ | November 7, 2009 | By ILAN BRAT, RACHEL EMMA SILVERMAN and JEFFREY BALL

[Oldeconomybuyer]

They were soldiers preparing to go to war, sometimes for the second or third time. They were also sons, daughters, fathers and a mother-to-be.

They were 21-year-old Jason Dean Hunt, who his sister said was proudest behind the wheel of his Bradley Armored Vehicle, from rural Oklahoma; Francheska Velez, 21, who was looking forward to the birth of her first child, from Chicago; and Amy Krueger, 29, a sports and outdoors enthusiast, from tiny Kiel, Wis.

These were three of the 13 people -- a dozen soldiers and a civilian Defense Department police officer -- killed Thursday when an Army major on the Fort Hood base in Texas fired guns into a crowded area where soldiers were being readied for assignments overseas.

The Pentagon Friday afternoon was still contacting families and hadn't released the names of the victims.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Jason Dean Hunt, 21, from Oklahoma

Associated Press

Francheska Velez, 21, from Chicago

Associated Press

Aaron Nemelka, 19, from Utah

[Just mythoughts]

Does anyone know if this killer knew these brave souls personally?

[hennie pennie]

Here’s another one about the girl you knew in Chicago.

[bgill]

And baby makes 14 killed, not 13.

[yoe]

This hand-wringing over a tragedy that never should have happened is a waste of time. Ft. Hood had a terrorist attack and this government of political correct politicians will do little about the Islamic Extremest problem in America, let alone in our Military and in our prisons.

Wake up America, you are at War with a Radical Enemy who will live among you and enjoy freedom just waiting to kill you. Our leaders are dropping the ball.....is no one running the store?

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[Eagles6]

This is the first news story that I have seen that is sympathetic to those that were killed and wounded.

Every liberal rag has a story portraying the terrorist as victim.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

I am angry. Really angry. I can not put my thoughts here. Every accursed leftwing media source is frantically rushing to give excuses for the murderer.
The leftwing media is ignoring the innocent victims.

I can come to only one conclusion - the leftwing media is on the side of the murderer and is glad that the innocent American soldiers were killed.

Mass deportations.

[Paperdoll]

God rest their souls. If the government can be infiltrated by evil, why not the Army? As I said yesterday, “political correctness” will be America’s downfall.

[BenKenobi]

God bless you everyone of you!

[SuziQ]

And baby makes 14 killed, not 13.

Indeed.

[Paperdoll]

Puleeze! There is only one Paperdoll. Don’t wish that on anyone else. ;)

[tessalu]

Allowing Muslims into this country, will be it’s downfall.
I hope the Army does not play around with this murderer as I suspect strongly that they will. He should be hung as soon as possible, with no delay.

[JustPiper]

Thank you much Hennie! I found many since yesterday & posted all the local news on it. The lousy Chgo MSM did swarm on your family home. There is one heartwrenching story in the Trib. Her Mom is hospitalized!!! Prayers for her