FORT HOOD, Texas — The Army presented a heroism medal Monday for the man credited with being the first to try stopping the Fort Hood gunman before being slain in the rampage. Michael Grant Cahill clutched a chair over his head and ran at the gunman soon after gunfire erupted on Nov. 5, 2009, and was fatally shot, according to several witnesses’ testimony at an evidentiary hearing last fall for the suspect, Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Hasan. Cahill, who was among 13 people killed and more than two dozen wounded, worked as a civilian contractor and his position made him ineligible for a military award, so getting approval for the medal took time, said Chris Haug, a Fort Hood spokesman. Cahill, 62, was a physician assistant in the medical building where soldiers returning from or preparing for deployment had to get vaccines and routine tests. Read full article > >

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Civilian who was first to try stopping Fort Hood shooter awarded medal posthumously

Today, November 5, 2010, marks the one-year anniversary of the Fort Hood shooting, in which former Army psychiatrist Major Nadal Halik Hasan shot and killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, wounding 42 others. As U.S. servicemembers and the families of the victims of this shooting grieved for those who were killed and Americans mourned the loss of life, reports on these crimes riveted the mainstream media. The shootings were certainly newsworthy. The problem is that almost the only time Muslims are featured in the U.S. read more

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One Year After Fort Hood: The Missing Story of Muslim Peacemaking

The former Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, refused to participate in a psychiatric evaluation of himself on Thursday, his lawyer told CNN.

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Fort Hood shooter refuses psych exam