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November 14, 2009 01:35 PM

Where are the Purple Hearts? Some Truths About Fort Hood

by Roger Kimball, from Roger’s Rules


Twelve solders and one civilian army employee were massacred by Maj. Nidal Hasan, an army psychiatrist, on November 5 at Ft. Hood, Texas. Maj. Hasan injured another thirty people, some critically, before being shot himself by the local police. Will the soldiers whom Hasan killed or injured in this latest terrorist assault receive the Purple Heart? In [...]


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