Sad Week

It has been a sad week here. First a local family was killed. This family was well know and well liked and were from here in Fayetteville as well as their families. Everywhere we go it seems someone knew them and has been effected by this. Then today we learned of a shooting at Ft Hood. Roger was stationed at Ft Hood when we were first married and we lived in Killeen for a year. The building the shooting happened in was the NCO club when we lived there, we used to go for free pizza on Wednesday. It was around the corner from where Roger worked. Seeing it on TV was unreal. It all hit close to home. As the story unraveled, it got closer. At first all we knew was it was Ft Hood, speculation was rampant. Then we knew it was a military member, and we felt the pain even more. And then the shocking news that he was a psychiatrist. Who trained at Walter Reed. It seemed to touch everywhere in our lives.

On Facebook, our friends are shocked. Army friends "calling" out to Ft Hood residents to make sure they were ok. My friend Chelle was busy posting links that would be helpful to her friends there and to remind people to help in this crisis. Our friends at Walter Reed in shock. No one wants to believe one of our own could do this.

Both situations make me wonder how this could happen. No matter how desperate one can feel, what could make someone kill someone else?