The official body count from Maj. Nidal Malik Hassan’s massacre in Fort Hood, Texas, on Nov. 5, 2009, is 13 deaths and 30 injuries.
But I include one more on the list of fallen. Pvt. Francheska Velez was three months pregnant at the time of the shooting. After Hassan noted her condition, he fired deliberately into her abdomen. Velez’s dying words were, “My baby, my baby.”
Pvt. Francheska Velez
The official records list 30 personnel injured. One of the injured is Hassan. I don’t choose to include him in the count.
This story is told by many of Hassan’s victims for a single reason — to compel the government to reclassify the massacre from an act of workplace violence to an act of terrorism. I believe Hassan’s victims, both living and dead, deserve that and more.
Many believe the government’s insistence that the incident be declared an act of workplace violence is rooted in political correctness. I share that belief.
To deny justice to the victims in order to spare the feelings of the shooter is a notion so cockamamie that only the government could conceive it.
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For years I have been waiting for the court martial of this fraudulent enlistee. Until this presidency, the military code of justice worked pretty well — but now, not so much. Shame on the perpetrators of this delay of justice!
What a disgrace this has put upon our military leaders and elected officials! We knew from the beginning that this was a terrorist attack and never considered it workplace anything! Any time a soldier is killed it is an attack and not just violence. I will not stop until justice is given to the families of those murdered at Ft. Hood!
It is disgraceful that our military personnel have not been treated as they should due to the fact that the “powers that be” do not want to classify this attack as an act of terrorism. Workplace violence…… please. We must elect officials who are proud of the United States and proud of the sacrifices of our military personnel, not someone who ia always aplogizing for the actions ofAmericans. God bless the families of the murdered and injured soldiers! Our military fights for our freedoms and we must also fight for our military men and women. We are still “One Nation Under God.”
fry that sucker. stop with the silly p.c.
btw – tie him down and shave that friggin beard off.
This ois one of the more glaring examples of this administration playing games with the truth. It’s being done to support the President’s “kinder, gentler” approach to the real enemy: ISLAMIC JIHAD TERRORISM! I might be detained for using this PC incorrect language. Even the training manuals that the military uses are being sanitized by removing mentions of Islam and/or Muslim with words like terror, terrorism, Jihad, holy war, etc.
But when PC goes as far as to call this Jihadist attack “workplace violence” then George Orwell smiles: war is peace, hate is love, and Big Brother will watch over you. Time to remove Big Brother from the White House.
Why has this murderer not been tried and given death?