Continuing with the story of Fort Hood's shooting, Thursday's incident turns out to be just one in a disturbing history of suicides and tragic killings at the base. There are disturbing statistics of unseen crimes associated with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan including rises in domestic violence, suicides, anger management issues and other violent crimes. Military officials try to point out that 53,000 soldiers assigned to the base makes Fort Hood the largest facility in the country, but it still doesn't explain the many red flags that have gone unnoticed.
There is the story of one soldier, Staff Sergeant Justin Lee Garza, 28, shot himself four days after being told that no counselor was available to see him. It is stories like these that make military families question the reliability and strength of psychiatric help for military officers.
There was an interesting profile on the bottom half of the front page featuring a Cuban Pentecostal minister voicing his dissent on gay marriage, State Senator Ruben Diaz Jr. He strongly opposes gay marriage and actively promotes this opinion despite to being surrounded by friends and loved ones who idenitify themselves as gay including two brothers, a granddaughter and friends. "I love them. But I don't believe in what they are doing," he says. "They are my brothers. They are my family." He has been very actively opposing gay marriage from sueing the city in the opening of a highschool for transgender/gay students to public speeches.
There is the story of one soldier, Staff Sergeant Justin Lee Garza, 28, shot himself four days after being told that no counselor was available to see him. It is stories like these that make military families question the reliability and strength of psychiatric help for military officers.
There was an interesting profile on the bottom half of the front page featuring a Cuban Pentecostal minister voicing his dissent on gay marriage, State Senator Ruben Diaz Jr. He strongly opposes gay marriage and actively promotes this opinion despite to being surrounded by friends and loved ones who idenitify themselves as gay including two brothers, a granddaughter and friends. "I love them. But I don't believe in what they are doing," he says. "They are my brothers. They are my family." He has been very actively opposing gay marriage from sueing the city in the opening of a highschool for transgender/gay students to public speeches.
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