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- Soldier At Fort Polk Gets His Long Overdue Purple Heart
A soldier from Fort Polk who'd been wounded by Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood has finally received the medal he should've gotten long ago: Nov. 5, 2009, dawned like most any other day for Pvt. Alan Carroll. The 20-year-old native of Anchorage, Alaska,...
- Fort Hood Victims Set To Receive Purple Hearts, Combat Status
From the Washington Examiner: Congress is set to make victims of the 2009 Fort Hood shootings eligible for Purple Hearts and combat injury benefits after the Obama administration has denied them the status for the past five years. House...
- Committee Uses Funding Power To Demand Fort Hood Answers From Seditious Doj
Victim of a Hostile Work Environment From Atlas Shrugs: The House Appropriations Committee is using next year's appropriations bill to demand from the Department of Justice a clear answer as to the department's alleged role in avoiding calling...
- Members Of Congress Demand Obama Administration Classify Ft. Hood Attack As An 'act Of Terrorism'
From Atlas Shrugs: Finally. This is monstrous. This story is close to four years old. Why did this take so long? And why did ABC wait until after election to run this terrible miscarriage of justice? How far will the jihad sympathizer in the...
- Are Fort Hood Survivors 'swiftboating' Obama?
From Barrack Now with thanks to Will at THE OTHER NEWS: The survivors of Nidal Malik Hasan's jihadist attack are fed up, as they should be. They're tired of watching their country's leaders tell the world that Hasan's rampage was 'workplace...
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Army announces Fort Hood victims will receive Purple Heart
From Fox News:
Secretary of the Army John McHugh announced Friday that victims of the 2009 Fort Hood massacre will receive the Purple Heart, in an about-face for the military which initially described the attacks as "workplace violence." The decision to award the Purple Heart was first reported by Fox News.
In a written statement, McHugh cited a recent change in the law that allowed the Army to proceed with the medals. "The Purple Heart's strict eligibility criteria had prevented us from awarding it to victims of the horrific attack at Fort Hood," McHugh said in a statement.
"Now that Congress has changed the criteria, we believe there is sufficient reason to allow these men and women to be awarded and recognized" with either the Purple Heart or, for civilians, the Defense of Freedom medal. "It's an appropriate recognition of their service and sacrifice," McHugh said.
Victims of the 2009 shooting and their families had been pressing the military to award the Purple Heart, and the benefits that come with it, for years.
They got a boost when Congress passed recent funding legislation requiring the Defense Department to reconsider whether the victims qualify for the honor.
The Army statement on Friday said the legislation expanded the eligibility criteria by broadening what can be considered an attack by a foreign terrorist organization.
The Army determined the shooting could be considered an attack because the shooter "was in communication with the foreign terrorist organization before the attack."
- Soldier At Fort Polk Gets His Long Overdue Purple Heart
A soldier from Fort Polk who'd been wounded by Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood has finally received the medal he should've gotten long ago: Nov. 5, 2009, dawned like most any other day for Pvt. Alan Carroll. The 20-year-old native of Anchorage, Alaska,...
- Fort Hood Victims Set To Receive Purple Hearts, Combat Status
From the Washington Examiner: Congress is set to make victims of the 2009 Fort Hood shootings eligible for Purple Hearts and combat injury benefits after the Obama administration has denied them the status for the past five years. House...
- Committee Uses Funding Power To Demand Fort Hood Answers From Seditious Doj
Victim of a Hostile Work Environment From Atlas Shrugs: The House Appropriations Committee is using next year's appropriations bill to demand from the Department of Justice a clear answer as to the department's alleged role in avoiding calling...
- Members Of Congress Demand Obama Administration Classify Ft. Hood Attack As An 'act Of Terrorism'
From Atlas Shrugs: Finally. This is monstrous. This story is close to four years old. Why did this take so long? And why did ABC wait until after election to run this terrible miscarriage of justice? How far will the jihad sympathizer in the...
- Are Fort Hood Survivors 'swiftboating' Obama?
From Barrack Now with thanks to Will at THE OTHER NEWS: The survivors of Nidal Malik Hasan's jihadist attack are fed up, as they should be. They're tired of watching their country's leaders tell the world that Hasan's rampage was 'workplace...