Ft Hood.
I can't believe what happened and I cannot imagine what the families are going through now. I know so many soldiers are already jumping to conclusions based on the one gunman's name. Honestly, though I am extremely tolerant, and have a lot of Muslim friends, I don't know the extremists that taint the Muslim religion. Yes the major might have been mentally unstable, yes he might have broken down after hearing all the soldiers at Walter Reed work through their issues. But you know, that doesn't give him the fucking right to shoot innocent soldiers about to go to war.
Soldiers deserve a safe place SOMEWHERE. It's bad enough that they are regularly being ripped away from their families to possibly be hurt or killed in some unforgiving foreign land. To be attacked at home, on the day they leave? Horrific.
I have a friend, J, that has pretty much lived at Walter Reed since December 07. He lost his legs in Afghanistan and he knew MAJ Malik Nadal Hasan. He talked to the guy, and he put his entire being into getting better and making his life a fulfilling one. If anyone has to lose it over what's happened and what might happen in his life J should be able to. But he isn't. He's strong and he's fighting for his quality of life. MAJ Hasan should have gotten out of his PTSD counselling services if it was affecting him that badly. As a psychiatrist he should have realised he was doing more harm than good...if this was just a case of being mentally unstable.
I personally hate using that excuse. It's the reason so many dangerous criminals are in the psych ward instead of dead or in a maximum security prison. If someone is capable of causing this much destruction they must face the punishment - which includes the raging mob awaiting vengeance.
Was it a terrorist attack? Who knows, but I'm not ruling out any possibility. If the people who are trying to solve this go about saying we can't include racial profiling because well... it's racist, then they would be hampering their case. I am waiting for the results because closure would probably be the only thing useful for the families of the fallen at this time. I will not ignore that MAJ Malik Nadal Hasan was a Muslim. I will not persecute all Muslims for this either.

Ok the good new... it's my birthday today, and I was surprised with an awesome 11 dozen roses at midnight by my husband at the bar. I am incredibly lucky to have such an amazing man in my life. I can't wait for the rest of the day.