On the recordDecember 14, 2011
I think it is particularly interesting that this determination by the Army came, or our military leaders, came here in December. We just observed--it wasn't a celebration--we observed the anniversary of Pearl Harbor. As Judge Carter pointed out numerous times, the victims of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon have been recognized as victims of warfare. They were attacked by people of the same belief as Major Hasan, that he secures a place in paradise if he is killed while killing infidels like his soldier friends. In fact, those soldiers that he was also hired to counsel as a counselor at Fort Hood, a local imam for Fort Hood, and yet one cannot help but wonder if these same folks who declared the deaths at the hands of a Muslim extremist at Fort Hood, if these same people in charge today had been in charge on December 7, 1941, then there is nothing to indicate their reasoning would have been different. All of those soldiers killed at Pearl Harbor, those entombed in the Arizona, those killed in that horrific surprise attack, actually they were at their duty stations. They were at work and someone came and killed them. Therefore, apparently under the reasoning as applied at Fort Hood, those killed at Pearl Harbor could also be considered as having been killed in workplace violence. It was violent. It was their workplace. Therefore, our mental geniuses that decided Fort Hood was workplace violence could say that about Pearl Harbor.
