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Article: Keep faith in aftermath of slayings, pastor urges.(PAGE ONE)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- November 9, 2009
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Byline: Steve Miller, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
KILLEEN, Texas -- Pastor Randy Wallace sat down Friday evening to write his weekly sermon and realized he was speaking to a different parish Sunday. The mass killings at nearby Fort Hood were barely 24 hours old, and Mr. Wallace had to refresh: ?What just happened?" he asked himself.
On Sunday, the clergyman told a group of 400 worshippers at First Baptist Killeen church, ?We're not the first ones to get a kick in the gut," referring to biblical disasters, and promised that locals with ties to the tragedy will be among them for years.
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