Because it Matters

Because THEY matter.

And because we cannot forget.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/06/fort.hood.shootings.victims/index.html

The suspect is in custody at a Medical Facility where he has been told he has permanent paralysis. Apparently, he has no feeling from the chest down and limited feeling in his arms.
He will remain in custody until his trial as the military justice system has no bail.
His lawyer seems concerned about where they will keep him once he is released from the hospital.

Don't worry, Sir. No member of the US Military or any of it's dependants will harm your client. He is a pitiful, paralyzed man who deserves to lay in a room and think about the thirteen lives he's stolen from this earth until he has his hour in court. And let me assure you, Sir, it will be a brief hour, and then justice will be done.

Nothing will ever fully atone for the good people he so arrogantly ended, but even his dispicable act will not strip from us our humanity. Justice will be done according to the laws of this great nation, and not the petty whims of petulant fanatics.

As the details of this tragic day emerge, I pray fervently that your client does not intend to use his faith as a reason for his inexcusable actions. And tell him that his own people are disgusted and broken hearted at what he has chosen to become.

Peace be with all of us who desire it and work toward it, and God bless the brave men and women of the US Military, the civilians who support them, and the dependants of both.