WASHINGTON (AP) — President Obama will attend a memorial service Tuesday honoring victims of the Ford Hood shootings, an attack he described as “all the more heartbreaking and all the more despicable” because it occurred on the nation’s largest Army post.He praised those who ended the shootings, which killed 13 and wounded 30 others, and lauded the armed services’ diversity — a move designed to calm tensions about the suspected shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.
Obama to attend memorial for Fort Hood victims
By The Associated Press
November 8, 2009