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Nov 6, 2009 7:34 pm US/Eastern

Locals Heartsick Over Fort Hood Tragedy

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) ― Unless you or your family has known someone who has served in the military in recent years, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq seem very far away.

But Thursday, for the first time since 9/11 it all came home and people have plenty to say about it.

At Ritter's Diner on Baum Boulevard, the lunch hour crowd was still roiling about what they had seen, read and heard about the attack on Fort Hood and the man who pulled the trigger.

"I keep thinking about it all day, as if it were my family, those poor boys go over there to help us - and that it's terrible," said Judy Williams of Shadyside.
 
"I hope none of our psychiatrist friends would hear this, but a lot of people go into psychiatry because of their own personal problems," Rick Siker of Mt. Lebanon adds.

"I feel really bad for the families that were involved," says John Davern of Munhall. "I think that it's a real shame that something like that would happen to innocent people."

Karen DePasquale thinks the massacre in Texas raises other issues.

"It's affected this country so deeply, and I really don't think we want to be at war. I just don't," she said. "I mean, we're watching our soldiers be killed over there daily and now they're being killed here."

Everyone had heard of the tragedy and were more than willing to say what they thought, like Nathan Wright of the North Side.

"Obviously, it's a terrible tragedy, but more than anything, I was stunned that something like that could even happen on an Army base," he said.

Amber Farr, of Penn Hills, says it felt to her like domestic terrorism.

"If you have your thoughts and your feelings on the war, you know, you don't have to take other people's lives. What does that prove? And now you have broken families, you know, with no answers," she said.

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