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Updated: 11:37 AM Nov 9, 2009
Ties to Tragedy: 2 Wisconsin soldiers killed at Fort Hood, 2 injured
Family members describe their soldiers; and in a radio interview this summer, one of the killed soldiers talked about his decision to join the military later in life
Posted: 11:38 AM Nov 6, 2009Reporter: Mary Rinzel and WEAU 13 News Staff Email Address: news@weau.com |
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Two Wisconsin soldiers were killed in Thursday’s attack at Fort Hood. Two others were injured.
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Family members say 51-year-old Russell Seager of Racine was killed Thursday. His uncle says he joined the Army a few years back because he was a psychiatrist who wanted to help returning veterans adapt back to civilian life.
Captain Seager talked about his decision to join the military later in life during a radio interview with WUWM this summer.
"I've always had a great deal of respect for the military and I just felt it was time I stepped up and did it," Seager said. "Every soldier wants to be perceived as strong. But, the army has made it a point to stress that it takes a strong soldier to ask for help."
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Amy Krueger, 29, from Kiel arrived at Fort Hood on Tuesday. Her mom says she was informed early Friday of her daughter's death.
Krueger was an Army sergeant with the Madison-based 467th Medical Detachment. She was scheduled to be sent to Afghanistan in December.
Jeri Krueger says her daughter joined the Army shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. She tells our sister station Amy was a strong willed, wonderful person.
Kiel High School Principal Dario Talerico says Krueger graduated from the school in 1998 and was proud to serve her country. He says she had spoken at least once to Kiel elementary school students about her career.
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23-year-old Army Reserve Spc. Grant Moxon, of Lodi, was injured in the attack. He graduated from UW-La Crosse in 2008 with a psychology degree.
Moxon was sitting in a processing room Thursday when he heard a commotion and found himself eye-to-eye with the shooter. After being shot above the knee he pretended to be dead until the shooter moved away. Later, Dave Moxon got a text from his son.
"It just said "this is Grant. I was shot in the leg. I'm gonna be OK,'" Dave Moxon says.
Dave Moxon says his son felt God was watching over him in Texas.
"He just felt very, very fortunate not have incurred a worse wound than he did and to be alive," Dave Moxon says.
Grant Moxon arrived at Fort Hood on Wednesday and was preparing to deploy to Afghanistan. He’s a mental health specialist—the same field as the suspected shooter.
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19-year-old Amber Bahr of Random Lake helped attend to other soldiers before realizing she'd been shot in the back.
Lt. Gen. Bob Cone, a military spokesman praised her heroics on NBC's "Today" show Friday. He says Bahr helped other soldiers who were injured and that Bahr applied a tourniquet to an injured soldier.
Her mother says it's a big relief to hear Bahr is OK. During a phone conversation with her daughter Friday afternoon she told her how proud she was.
"You went absolutely above and beyond honey, but I know you were just doing what you were trained to do," Lisa Pfund told her daughter.
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13 soldiers were killed in Thursday's attack at Fort Hood; at least 30 were injured.
Shooting suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was shot four times. A hospital spokesperson says he's in stable condition in the intensive care unit at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, about 150 miles southwest of Fort Hood.
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