pain that the president referred to in his remarks today. obviously sharing the shock that many americans feel to hear that something like this has happened again in the same place, wolf. and they re getting ready for this news conference, michelle, at ft. hood. the commanding general mark milly, lieutenant general of the united states army, will be briefing us momentarily once he gets to that microphone. we ll of course have live coverage. stand by for that. joining us on the phone right now is retired staff sergeant alonzo hundre alonzolunsford. shot in the 2009 attack shot by major nidal hasan. alonzo, thanks very much for joining us. this brings back awful memories, i m sure. just tell us what s going through your mind as you watch this story unfold. well, right now i appreciate you all having me on. i m dealing with a lot of emotions. and i would first like to give my deepest sympathies for the
the power. now is the time instead of us pointing fingers, the first act we need to do is to embrace the families of the ill, injured or wounded. remind us, alonzo, what happened on that day back on november 5, 2009. you were at ft. hood and major nidal hasan opened fire on you and a lot of your fellow soldiers. yes, sir. major hasan, we had initially worked together on the 18th of october so we knew each other. and after lunch on thursday, november 5th, 2009 is when major hasan decided to open fire on his fellow comrades that were ready to deploy. i was working at the srp, the processing center that day, i had just relieved one of my soldiers to go eat lunch. therefore i was there. and the as a result of our shooting was 14 dead, 32