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Article: For priest, move to accept Fort Hood post was calling ; Gave last rites to a majority of the victims
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 8, 2009
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The Rev. Edward McCabe didn't want to go to Fort Hood when the
assignment came for the Army Reserves captain to become senior
Catholic chaplain at the sprawling military post.
McCabe, a priest from Milton attached to the Archdiocese of
Boston, had lived around water all his life, and a land-locked post
in Texas offered no appeal.
But, he said, something called him to accept the post.
Two months after he arrived, when he was needed to pray for those
felled by a gunman, McCabe came to understand why Fort Hood was
where he needed to be.
After Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly went on a shooting
rampage that left 13 dead and many more wounded, McCabe provided
last rites to soldiers dying of ...