{"id":126,"date":"2009-11-07T04:29:43","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T10:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=126"},"modified":"2022-09-08T13:55:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T12:55:08","slug":"obama-army-base-heroism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/obama-army-base-heroism\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama praises army base heroism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>US President Barack Obama has praised the heroism of soldiers and civilians in their response to the deadly attack at a US army base in Texas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/obama.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-127\" title=\"Obama\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/obama-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"Obama\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/obama-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/obama.jpg 404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In his weekly address, he says that although the shootings showed the &#8220;worst of human nature&#8221; they had also brought out &#8220;the best of America&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Maj Nidal Malik Hasan, a US-born Muslim, opened fire at Fort Hood on Thursday, killing 13 people.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old army psychiatrist was shot four times and remains in a coma.<\/p>\n<p>About 30 people were also hurt in the attack, with some still carrying life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of people gathered in a stadium at the Fort Hood base on Friday night for a candlelit vigil.<\/p>\n<p>Barrac Obama said the shooting was &#8220;one of the most devastating ever committed on an American military base&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But he added: &#8220;We saw soldiers and civilians alike rushing to aid fallen comrades; tearing off bullet-riddled clothes to treat the injured; using blouses as tourniquets; taking down the shooter even as they bore wounds themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Barack Obama has praised the heroism of soldiers and civilians in their response to the deadly attack at a US army base in Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,80,68,63,51,85,101],"tags":[546,629,551,548,549,550,544,542,552],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-breaking-news","category-business","category-daily","category-economy","category-media-news","category-politics","tag-army-base-heroism","tag-barack-obama","tag-barrac-obama","tag-base-heroism","tag-fort-hood","tag-mr-obama","tag-nidal-malik-hasan","tag-obama","tag-us-president-barack-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}