"It's Home"

LAW explains so well why the shooting at Fort Hood shocks us to the core:

All of us in the milspouse world know at least one person who has been there, is going there, or is there now. It hurts. Being on post is supposed to be safe, it's home, it's where they understand our language, where we can read the uniform and know who that is. It's the known, no matter where we end up in the world, Post/Base, is the same. There's the PX, there's the Commissary, there's HQ, there's the unit, the orderly room, the theatre where you stand for the national anthem, the flagpole where you face when retreat is sounded. Whether it's AFSOUTH, or Belvoir, Bragg or Quantico, it's home. It's not supposed to be dangerous; it's not supposed to be scary.

Comments

[aggie af wife]

I was just shocked and pissed off - still am. And my civilian co workers just couldn't understand why I was so livid. "you didn't know anyone personally".. but I feel like I did, it could have been my husband, my brother in law.. my base.

[Prim Optimist]

The Ft. Hood shootings are tragic, however I feel this incident is not entirely unexpected. My husband has been in the Army 10 years and I never feel safe entering, leaving or being on a military post.

[SB]

I agree with Prim. I have never felt "safe" on base, at least not any more than anywhere public. Every group has at least one bad seed, and while I'd like to have faith that the groups that I belong to are excluded from that, it simply is not true, and terribly, terribly sad. I would like to believe that anyone in a uniform (police, military, doctor) is trustworthy and has good intentions, we know from criminal history there are bad cops, bad doctors, and now bad military members...