Tehillim for the Ft. Hood Soldiers

As you may have heard, there was a shooting at the Ft. hood army base in Texas. 12 people are dead and 31 wounded. The shooter was a soldier, and there may have been other soldiers involved.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/us/06forthood.html

Can we all say some tehillim for them?

I will say 1-5
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Senior Member Joined: Jan 28 2009 Posts: 134

Yes, definitely. And thanks for suggesting it.

Posted: Thu, Nov 05 2009, 7:14 pm Post subject:

Thanks. Im glad at least one person responded.

I thought no one cared. I figured people were saying to themselves 'well the soldiers probably weren't Jewish, so what does it matter to me"

Glad someone cared

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Senior Member Joined: Mar 03 2008 Posts: 172

so sad. I heard the shooter was a psychiatrist about to be shipped to war. I will pray...

Silver Member Joined: Nov 04 2008 Posts: 803

How horrible. I just read the article on cnn that said he was greatly esteemed as a psychiatrist. What a tragedy.
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Yeah. Look at the bloke's name - I'm a little suspicious here. This may well have been a terrorist thing.

Shosh, it appears it was. This Muslim psychiatrist was investigated recently for telling/bombarding soldiers that the war in Iraq is wrong & America is the agressor. Well, he may think that as a civilian, no matter his religion, but he's giving therapy to soldiers??? Shocked

They should keep him alive long enough to kill him.

As for saying something: this topic comes way below today's Yankees tickertape parade on the radio. SICK!!!

Gold Member Joined: Apr 23 2009 Posts: 1134 Location: USA

It is very sad. And bubby they killed him.

No, he's on a respirator, hanging by a thread.

Gold Member Joined: Apr 23 2009 Posts: 1134 Location: USA

Oh didn't know that. heard they shot him but didn't realiize he was still alive.

Gold Member Joined: Nov 20 2007 Posts: 1057

What a crazy story. Very very sad.
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Gold Member Joined: Mar 12 2009 Posts: 1524

I heard the dr. is stable though on machines.

I wouldn't go so far as to divide the sefer Tehillim but there are many, many reasons to say Tehillim under such circumstances and thanks for inspiring us to do so.

Silver Member Joined: Jan 10 2005 Posts: 608

interesting blog post about the topic:

http://www.treppenwitz.com/2009/11/is-it-just-me.html#comments

Posted: Fri, Nov 06 2009, 12:37 pm Post subject:

Was he a terrorist? Discussion at

http://www.theweek.com/article/index/102544/Fort_Hood_Crime_or_terrorism

Senior Member Joined: Dec 27 2008 Posts: 171

This is, indeed, very sad. If it turns out that he was a terrorist or not, he was obviously unstable and since there's no way to prevent soldiers from having access to weapons, the only way to keep military bases safe is to make sure those who do have weapons are "fit to serve."

My brother was posted at Ft. Hood for years. I visited him there, he and his wife lived there and their daughter was born there.

A terrible tragedy for those families and all the other troops.

Gold Member Joined: Dec 27 2007 Posts: 1737

What I do not get is knowing his history how did he get into the army in the first place. Is it just 20/20 hindsight? Or did they just not check into things as throughly as they should have?
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