Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, is suspected of carrying out the carnage.
Betty Dawson's late husband was a veteran. Her emotions are on a roller coaster as she follows the news closely.
"It's hard at this stage to say just how I feel," Dawson, of Belton, said. "This is in our backyard. It is hard to judge exactly how I feel. I want to lay blame somewhere, I want a reason that this happened and why it happened here. I have been angry. I have been sad. It depends what I am watching or reading. I was so glad to hear that the lady policewoman survived … I cried when I heard that, but at the same time I heard that the gunman had lived and … I don't want to comment on that.
