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By William Booth The Washington Post

KILLEEN, Texas — They started lowering the flags to half-staff here before the Army had even finished counting the dead. Home to Fort Hood, Killeen is a tough Texas town, and soldiers and civilians here expressed all the emotions felt by the rest of the country — shock, sadness, anger — but more so. It was raw, and it was personal. For more military coverage, go to postandcourier.com/military Inside the cozy, dark and smoky American Legion Post 573, Richard Beach was sipping an afternoon beer Friday when he said, 'We all have a lot of anger. Anger because the base is supposed to be the safe zone, you know, and here is a guy, a doctor and he shoots our people?' Out on the Veteran's Highway at the edge of town there's a row of honky tonks and strip clubs. At a place called Wild Times, across the highway from the Booze Box, the management put up a sign urging passers-by to pray for the victims and their families.

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