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Article: Shock, sadness grip tight-knit Fort Hood community
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- November 7, 2009
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A chaplain exhorted hundreds of mourners gathered at a candlelight vigil not to give up hope as Fort Hood and its surrounding community looked to each other for comfort after a U.S. Army psychiatrist allegedly went on a deadly shooting spree at the military post.
A grief counseling center was set up Friday at the Killeen Community Center to help residents struggling to make sense of one of the worst mass shootings ever on a military facility in the United States. At least 13 people died and more than two dozen were wounded in the attack a day earlier.
"Remember to keep breathing. ... Keep going," Douglas Carver, the Army's chief chaplain, told the crowd of several ...