What is going on in this world ?! If I didn't have to eat, pay my mortgage and bills, I'd stay in my house curled up in my bed forever!
It seems as though people are getting more dangerous by the second or, are we just hearing about it more these days?
Maybe I've been blessed but how do people get to the point where they become so detached and angry that they'd want to kill?! It's disgusting. The CIA, FBI or whomever, need to round these people up and put them on an island at the ends of the earth!
Thanks gang. This is a very tight community and it will take awhile before the healing can start. I think right now we are all still shell shocked,hurt and angry.
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Oh Darc, that is terrible, you have my sincere condolences, what is happening in this world I know that they say that Man will destroy the world, it does seem this way lately,
...At how I even begin to push the emotions that are holed up inside my soul right now. Today something happened that was so shocking and hurtful that I am absolutly gutted and angry about. Something that rehashed a day that broke my spirit.
Today: The mass murdering of 12 of my fellow Soldiers and the wounding of thirty-one more.
Flashback: To a certain day in 2004, when I was working in Casuality Affairs at Ft. Lewis. Now I knew many a day during my year in that Dept. when I thought the **** could not hit the fans more. I was about to find out how wrong I was. The day I am talking about would be the day of the "Mess tent bombing". Most of you will immediatly pick up on the time I am talking about...or trying to talk about. When so many of my fellow Soldiers and friends found themselves the wrong end of a piece of shrapnel, IED or worse...dead. I remember the call that woke me in the middle of the night, that cell phone flashing its squad car lights around the darkness of my barracks room as I reached out and took this call...
"Twenty or more wounded, multiple killed in action, this is not a drill".
Today: So you can or could understand with clarity my horror when I got into my Pontiac, turned on the radio only to here:
"12 Killed, thirty one wounded...THIS IS NOT A DRILL".
This is what happened today 11-5-2009. And while this time I was not directly involved...I was on that base only thirty minutes before and I live a short three minutes away and could here this time the wailing sirens from base that only go off for a dire emergency, screaming in my ear. Knowing I was so close and once again like that day in 2004, could not do a damned thing to help prevent the deaths of US Soldiers.
Only it was not the perceived enemy, it was a fellow Soldier. And an Officer and Doctor at that. One who's duty it was to help Soldiers cope with the hell that is called and respected as War. For some reason, something happened within him, I will not try and say I know exactly what...but it was enough that he felt the need to wage war on his Comrades in Arms.
On that note, I will be blunt and say...I have run out of ways to express what I am feeling right now, so I will post the poem I wrote shortly after that day in 2004. I think it expresses what my angst is right now.
Gasping into wakefulness, I reach towards the annoying ring of my cell phone... hating the flashing red light it throws around my bedroom, knowing what it means With trepidation I answer and in stunned shock I listen "Twenty or more wounded, multiple killed in action, this is not a drill"
Stumbling out of bed I jump into the shower almost without thinking, an hour later finds me walking into my office and descending into hell Somewhere in Iraq, something has happened.. an explosion at lunchtime in the mess hall. Now hundreds of my fellow soldiers are lying dead or wounded and the job of helping to get the poor families notified falls on my co-workers and I.
All thru the day and night, we make phone calls, field questions we can not possibly answer and read in stunned shock the reports that come in one after the other of how this soldier was killed and why that soldier was wounded.
Twenty hours pass and I feel the weight of what is called war crush threefold onto of me. I have held myself and my crew together for these twenty hours, but now I feel the shocking emotions hit me. "Twenty or more wounded, multiple killed in action, this is not a drill" Need I say more?
Twenty Hours
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"My heart beat thrice, twice, once...and then no more the moment a passing comet bespoke of your fall from grace".
I was on base earlier and thank god I just missed this, but I feel gutted about the un-needed loss of life of my fellow Soldiers. I can only pray that its not some of my friends.
Multiple Shootings at Fort Hood
Posted: Nov 05, 2009 1:53 PM CST Updated: Nov 05, 2009 2:57 PM CST
KCEN has confirmed a mass shooting on Fort Hood in Killeen.
There are now reports of a third shooter who has opened fire on Fort Hood. One policeman is down.
So far there are 7 people reported dead, and 20 wounded.
There are also reports of two different crime scenes: the SPC and Howve Theater on Battalion Ave.
One person is in custody.
Police surrounded the 42006 building, said to be used for traumatic brain injuries, on Fort Hood and fired shots at a male suspect in an Army uniform with a Major rank. The suspect was injured, but has now run in to another building.
Reports say the shooter had a high-powered rifle and was aiming to kill.
Killeen ISD says all Fort Hood schools are on lockdown.
Temple ISD is on a "soft" lockdown. Parents will be able to pick their children up at the normal times, though they may experience delays.
Tune in to KCEN 9 News for the latest developments on this breaking news story.
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"My heart beat thrice, twice, once...and then no more the moment a passing comet bespoke of your fall from grace".
?! If I didn't have to eat, pay my mortgage and bills, I'd stay in my house curled up in my bed forever!
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