Mass Murder Memorial Day

Remembering a soldier dishonored even in death

On Memorial Day the nation honors those who died while serving in the armed forces of the United States. Consider Lt. Col. Juanita Warman, the 25-year veteran who specialized in post-traumatic stress disorder. In 2006, Lt. Col. Warman received an Army Commendation Medal for her work with wounded warriors at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany.

In November 2009, Warman was stationed at the Soldier Readiness Processing Center at Fort Hood, Texas.

On November 5, 2009, Maj. Nidal Hasan deployed two pistols, yelled “Allahu Akbar” and began firing. The self-proclaimed “soldier of Allah,” fired 241 rounds, killing 13 unarmed American soldiers including Lt. Col. Warman, Sgt. Amy Sue Krueger and PFC Francheska Velez, who was pregnant. The more than 30 wounded by Hasan included Army Reserve Captain Dorothy Carskardon, who came to the aid of Velez. Her unborn child brings the true death count to 14, more than twice as many as the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993.

The President Formerly Known as Barry Soetoro failed to condemn the shooter and called the mass murder “workplace violence,” not terrorism or even gun violence. Vice president Joe Biden failed to condemn the shooter, named not a single victim, and expressed sympathy for the families of those “who fell” in what was a “senseless tragedy.”

In 2022, Biden renamed Fort Hood after the late Gen. Richard Cavazos, who served in Korea and Vietnam. A better candidate would be Juanita Warman, the highest-ranking casualty of the 11/5 attack. “Lt. Col. Warman did not lose her life to enemy fire” explained Arlington National Cemetery in a post since taken down. “Instead, she was one of 13 people murdered at Fort Hood, allegedly at the hands of fellow U.S. Army Officer Major Nidal Hasan.” (Emphasis added)

Maj. Hasan wore an American uniform but was really an ally of the Taliban. So Lt. Col. Warman and the 13 others did lose their lives to enemy fire, and there was nothing “alleged” about the mass murder. Fort Warman would make a fine name for the base, and there’s more to the story people should know.

The wounded did not get their medals until 2015 and Maj. Hasan got better medical treatment than his victims. From his arrest in 2009 until 2013, Hasan kept his rank of major and received $278,000 in salary. The soldier of Allah was sentenced to death in 2013, but the sentence has never been carried out. If families of the 14 dead thought he should have been executed long ago it would be hard to blame them. And as Lt. Peter Hancock (Bryan Brown) said in Breaker Morant, “he’ll never get to heaven if he doesn’t die.”