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At Fort Hood, LI soldiers felt secure

The giant Texas military facility where authorities say an Army major shot dozens of people was home to about 600 soldiers of New York's famed 69th Infantry Regiment - many of them from Long Island - as they prepared for their 2004 deployment to Iraq.

"I'm stunned," Sgt. Tim Wiwczar, a member of the regiment's Bay Shore-based B-Company, said of the deaths of 12 and the wounding of 31 at Fort...

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