It is a very sad story. I am shocked and my heart goes truly out for the families of the victims, but I can not bury my head in the sand and not say that I am surprised.

The stress in our military bases have been increasing for quite sometime. The idea of maybe going to a war, specially a controversial war as the one in Iraq, has made our soldiers wondering what for and why.

The lack of political direction, the cense that  soldiers are not fighting for his/hers country but for a political mistake, it can bring down the moral of the troops regardless of how well they are physically trained.

In the immortal words of ex- Yankee coach Yogi Berra "This is dejá vue all over again". It reminds me of Vietnam, where young soldiers would cry in the fields  saying "Why am I here?" and the untold stories of veterans, coming home, unwelcome, with physical and mental scars, unable to cope with  daily life and a lost of youth.

I am not  agreeing with what Nidal Amik Hasan did. As someone that have being in the "killing fields" of war, I can imagine what may go in his head.

Mr. Hasan, being a psiciatrist, must have heard a lot of stories from soldiers that came from the field of war. Finally, when he found out  that he was going  to face those same horrors, he snapped

I also imagine, the turmoil that probably went in his head. Fighting people with his Islamic religious believes, regardless his toughs of right or wrong causes of war.

We just hope that a  lesson is learned to train and and support our soldiers, mentally and emotionally, in and out of the fields of war.

Ideas and politics may change thru out history, but emotions and states of minds still  very much the same, when it came to going to war.

A good and balance soldier, must have a real picture of the purpose of  why he/she is fighting.

Can we learn that?