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| President Obama honors fallen troops at Fort Hood |
| By miamiherald.com |
| Published: 11/11/2009 |
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FORT HOOD — No Army base in America has had more memorial services than this one. In the last six years alone, more than 545 young men and women assigned to Fort Hood have died in Iraq or Afghanistan, their names inscribed on memorials around this massive Central Texas installation. President Barack Obama, on his first presidential visit to the post, the day before Veterans Day, memorialized 13 more Tuesday, all of them killed, authorities believe, by a fellow soldier Thursday afternoon. "This is a time of war," Obama said before about 15,000 soldiers, relatives, community members and political leaders gathered in front of the III Corps headquarters. "And yet these Americans did not die on a foreign field of battle. They were killed here, on American soil, in the heart of this great American community. It is this fact that makes the tragedy even more painful and even more incomprehensible. "... But here is what you must also know: Your loved ones endure through the life of our nation." Read More. |
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