07 April 2014

Fort Hood area services honor fallen; Obama to attend memorial | RallyPoint.com

Military News - Fort Hood area services honor fallen; Obama to attend memorial

Image Copyright: AP Photo/ Tamir Kalifa

By Will Weissert
Copyright: Associated Press

KILLEEN, Texas — The church program pictured an empty road being enveloped by the dark clouds of a sweeping thunderstorm, and the service's lesson was from Isaiah 35:4, "Be strong, fear not." The preacher implored those gathered Sunday that they would find hope in God, but also acknowledged the question on everyone's mind: Why Fort Hood — again?

What would have been a routine Sunday service at Tabernacle Baptist Church just outside the sprawling Texas military base became a tribute to the soldiers killed four days earlier when a fellow service member opened fire. It also offered some catharsis for the community struggling to comprehend Fort Hood's second fatal shooting rampage in less than five years.

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