
KC,
The media creates this madness. All violence is bad. I know all kinds of people from the hood who have been shot and no one thinks they are heroes. The term is that fool got shot! However, get shot by a crazed gun man on a army base and some how you become a hero. Hmmm! Why is this person who got shot on a army base a hero and people in mall shootings are not. I guess it's because the media reports it in a different way. It does not make it true. Now if she would have stopped the shooter I would be ready to call this woman a hero. I am happy that she was not killed. Read this.
Peace,
Alonzo Washington
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- For a local soldier who survived the attack at Fort Hood, this is an extraordinary holiday week in which to give thanks.
Keara Bono is back home in the Kansas City metro area.
KMBC's Maria Antonia spoke with Bono as she prepared to reunite with her loved ones Tuesday evening.
Watch Bono Reunite With Her Family Bono's family filled the site with patriotic decorations. She arrived home late Monday night, and has not seen most of her family since the attack.
Bono was one of several soldiers wounded when
Maj. Nidal Hasan allegedly opened fire in a building where soldiers were medically screened prior to deployment.
"There's going to be so many people I haven't seen forever," Bono said.
She knows that her experiences during the attack will raise questions among her relatives.
Bono has the shirt she was wearing at the time, and will be able to show her family the hole where a bullet went into her back. She said that she guessed the injury was "a ricochet or it went through something else, because it isn't that deep. By the grace of God, it didn't go that deep."
The attack injured seven members of her unit. Two of them did not survive.
Bono is being given time to heal from her injuries, and will not deploy with her unit to Iraq on Dec. 7. She will report back to Fort Hood in the middle of December before joining her unit overseas.
She said she has not been keeping up with the investigation into the attack.
Tune in to KMBC at 6 p.m. to see Bono reuniting with her family.