Read the Powerful Letter a Fort Hood Solider Penned Asking for His ‘God-Given Right’ to Arm Himself on Base

John Hames shared with you:   Read the Powerful Letter a Fort Hood Solider Penned Asking for His 'God-Given Right' to Arm Himself on Base theblaze.com - "My name is First Lieutenant Patrick Cook of the 49th Transportation Battalion, Fort Hood, Texas, and this past Wednesday I found myself trapped in an enclosed room with fourteen of my fellow Soldiers, one of whom was barricading the door against a madman with a .45 pistol when he was fatally shot." The letter, which Cook posted to Facebook Monday night, provides the gripping and tragic account of Sgt. First Class Daniel Ferguson's final moments in which he sacrificed himself to save his fellow soldiers. "[I] can still taste his blood in my mouth from when I and my comrades breathed into his lungs for 20 long minutes…" Available on the App Store.

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