Screams, sirens herald Fort Hood chaos

Screams, sirens herald Fort Hood chaos
By Moni Basu, CNN
November 6, 2009 10:51 a.m. EST

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Parents worry about dangers overseas, not in Texas
Soldiers use battlefield medical training on home soil
Mother worries about son in day care as post is locked down
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(CNN) -- It was the kind of phone call military families dread receiving from Iraq and Afghanistan -- not from Texas.

Peggy McCarty's daughter called Thursday afternoon to say she had been wounded by a gunshot in her left shoulder. Keara Bono, 21, assured her mother that she was OK, but McCarty's heart skipped.

She knew she had much to fear when Bono, an Army specialist, arrived at Fort Hood to prepare for an early December deployment to Iraq. But McCarty never thought she would have to worry about her child getting wounded on American soil.

"I thought I was more worried about her going over to Iraq than here, just doing training in Texas. She just got there yesterday," McCarty told CNN affiliate KSHB-TV in Kansas City, Missouri.

Bono was one of 30 people hurt when a soldier opened fire on a military processing center at Fort Hood, the place where soldiers report before they head to war. They get medical and dental checkups there. They settle finances and even make out their wills.
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