Keara BonoYesterday's massacre at Fort Hood was a nightmare scenario. A fellow soldier allegedly turns on his own, killing 13 and wounding 31. One of the injured was Keara Bono of Olathe. The 21-year-old was reportedly shot in the shoulder.The Kansas City Star has a chilling story about Keara Bono's experience.
Her family said she was on the phone with her husband, Joey Torkelson, when the shooting started. He heard shots, and then screams, and then the phone went dead.
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On Thursday Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan shot up Fort Hood, killing 12. Though a soldier for 12 years, Hasan apparently demonstrated, out loud, loyalty and affection for global jihad. It's appropriate to ask what such a person was doing in the U.S. Army.Rightbloggers saw a bigger problem, though: the liberal media. Though
they got nearly all of their information about Hasan from such sources,
they yet accused them of trying to cover up his Muslim roots, and even
of excusing his massacre.In t
Last week's Veterans Day was an unusually poignant one, coming just a day after the memorial service for 12 soldiers and a civilian killed at Fort Hood by a man who, as far as we still know, was one of their own. Wednesday was marked by political speeches expressing love and gratitude for those who served our country.A couple of days later, though, there was a less-ceremonial and all-too-real veterans day at Memorial Hall in downtown Kansas City, Kansas. There, the Heart of America Stand Down an
