Fort Hood Texas
11 - 5 - 2009
13 fallen heros
and one Guardian Angel

Capt. John Gaffaney

Arrived at Fort Hood the day
before the shooting to
prepare for a deployment to Iraq




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Capt. Russell Seager
Seager, 51, of Racine, Wis.,
was a psychiatrist who joined
the Army a few years ago
because he wanted to help
veterans returning to civilian
life, said his uncle, Larry Seager
of Mauston.




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Lt. Col. Juanita Warman
Warman, 55, of Havre De Grace,
Md., was a military physician
assistant with two daughters and
six grandchildren.




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Maj. Libardo Eduardo Caraveo
Caraveo, 52, of Woodbridge, Va.,
arrived in the United States in his
teens from Ciudad Juarez,
Mexico, knowing very little
English said his son, also named
Eduardo Caraveo.




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Michael Grant Cahill
Cahill, a 62-year-old physician
assistant, suffered a heart
attack two weeks ago and
returned to work at the base as
a civilian employee after taking
just one week off for recovery,
said his daughter Keely
Vanacker




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Pfc. Aaron Thomas Nemelka
Nemelka, 19, of the Salt Lake City
suburb of West Jordan, Utah,
chose to join the Army instead of
going on a mission for The Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints, his uncle Christopher
Nemelka said.




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Pfc. Kham Xiong
Xiong, 23, of St. Paul, Minn., was
a father of three whose family had
a history of military service.






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Pfc. Michael Pearson
Pearson, 22, of the Chicago
suburb of Bolingbrook, Ill., quit
what he figured was a dead-end
furniture company job to join the
military about a year ago.






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Pvt. Francheska Velez
Velez, 21, of Chicago, was
pregnant and preparing to return
home. A friend of Velez's, Sasha
Ramos, described her as a fun-
loving person who wrote poetry
and loved dancing.






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Sgt. Amy Krueger
Krueger, 29, of Kiel, Wis., joined
the Army after the 2001 terrorist
attacks and had vowed to take on
Osama bin Laden, her mother, Jeri
Krueger said.






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Staff Sgt. Justin M. DeCrow
DeCrow, 32, was helping train
soldiers on how to help new
veterans with paperwork and
had felt safe on the Army post






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Spc. Frederick Greene
Greene, 29, of Mountain City,
Tenn., went by "Freddie" and was
active at Baker's Gap Baptist
Church while he was growing up,
said Glenn Arney, the church's
former superintendent and a
former co-worker of Greene's






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Spc. Jason Dean Hunt
Hunt, 22, of Frederick, Okla., went
into the military after graduating
from Tipton High School in 2005
and had got married just two
months ago, his mother, Gale
Hunt, said. He had served 3 1/2
years in the Army, including a stint
in Iraq






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Police Officer Kimberly Munley
of Killeen Texas
Munley, has been hailed a hero by
Fort Hood base commander Lt.
Gen. Robert Cone, who credited
her Friday, Nov. 6, 2009 with
bringing the massacre to an end
and saving an untold number of
lives when she shot the Fort Hood
assailant






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November 5th 2009
Another date we
will not forget

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