For: Barack Obama
I want to refer to the tragedy that took place in Ft. Hood. Last Thursday, the 5th, during an evening of serene in Texas, a psychiatrist of the Army entered the Center of Procedures of Soldiers' Preparation and began to shoot against his companions of the armed forces.
It was an act of violence that would have been painful if it had happened in any place of the United States. It is a crime that would have terrified us, independently of the origin of the victims. But it is particularly heartbreaking and despicable due to the place where it happened and to the patriots that he charged like victims.
It is to this center where our uniform men and women come before being mobilized. Really there dental examinations are done and his case histories are updated and they make sure that everything should be similar before being transferred abroad. It was in this place, in a base where our soldiers should be able to feel more safe, where these brave Americans who were preparing themselves to risk the life in defense of our nation died for a crime against our nation.
Soldiers competed in Iraq, Afghanistan and in the whole world they called and sent messages to beings wanted in Ft. Hood, all expressing the same stupefaction: It is supposed that I am the one that is in danger, not you.
The Thursday slaughter was one of the most heartbreaking never committed in a military base of the United States. Nevertheless, even when it put in clear the worst of the human nature, we saw also the best of the United States. We saw so much soldiers as civil to hurry to help his fallen partners; to tear the clothes perforated to bullets to treat the injured persons; to use blouses as tourniquets; to repel to the knob in spite of themselves to be hurt.
We saw soldiers demonstrating in our own territory the aptitudes with which they were trained to use abroad; aptitudes that have been perfected during years of effort decided with only one intention: to protect and to defend the United States of North America.
We saw the value, detachment and common intention that do of our soldiers the best of the planet; that do that the military men of the United States are better that the world has never known, and that does that all of us are proud of being Americans.
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On Friday, the 6th I met the director Mueller of the FBI, the secretary of Defender Gates and representatives of the corresponding agencies to speak of the current investigation Y to elucidate what motivated this terrible crime. And I will continue in narrow contact with them as new information should come.
It is not possible to go so far as to know completely what ride to a man to do a thing like that. But what yes we know is that our thoughts are with each of the men and women hurt in Ft. Hood. Our thoughts are with all the families that have lost to to be wanted in this national tragedy. And our thoughts are with all the Americans who go or who have taken the graceful uniform of the United States: our soldiers, sailors, aviators, infantes of Marina and coastguard vessel, and the military families that love them and support.
In memory to the Ft fallens. Hood, I have ordered to place flags to half a flagstaff in the White House and other federal buildings, from today (Saturday, the 7th) until Wednesday, the 11th, the Day of the Veterans.
The Day of the Veterans is our opportunity to produce homage homage to these Americans who have served in the battlefields from Lexington to Antietam, from Normandy to Manila, as Inchon to Khe Sanh, as Ramadi to Kandahar.
They are Americans of all the spheres, races and religions. They are Christian and Moslem, Jewish and hindúes, and not believers. They are progeny of immigrants and immigrants. They reflect the diversity that defines the United States. But what they share is a patriotism without equal. What they share is a commitment with the country that has been put to test and gone out airy. What they share is the same imperturbable valor, inexhaustible compassion and unusual fellowship that the soldiers and civil of Ft. Hood showed to the United States and to the world.
There are these the men and women to whom we produce homage to them today. There are these the men and women to whom we will produce homage to them the Day of the Veterans. And there are these the men and women to whom we produce homage to them every day, in war times and in peace times, while our nation lasts.
(*) Senior Advisor de Americás Voice
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