Fort Hood Heroes Recall "Chaotic" Scene

The First Officers to Respond to the Shooting - Sgts. Kimberly Munley and Mark Todd - Interviewed by Oprah Winfrey

(CBS/AP)  An officer who has been hailed as a hero in the Fort Hood massacre says the scene was "confusing and chaotic" but she remembers getting shot.

Sgt. Kimberly Munley says getting shot felt like "a muscle being torn out of my leg."

Munley was one of two civilian police officers who confronted the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people and injuring 29 at the Texas military base last week. She and Senior Sgt. Mark Todd were interviewed on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" Wednesday.

The pair - interviewed by satellite from Texas - received a standing ovation from Winfrey's studio audience.

The 34-year-old Munley is out of the hospital after undergoing two surgeries. The 42-year-old Todd was not wounded.

Munley said that her condition is improving daily and said, "I'm just hoping that the rest of the officers and the injured and the families of the deceased are healing as well."

She said that she had been fueling and cleaning her patrol car in preparation to hand it off for the incoming shift when she got the call from Fort Hood.

"We didn’t have too much time to think," she said, but thanks to extensive training, "it becomes second nature and kind of reflexive for us to react."

Todd said he received the call following a fairly routine morning. At first he thought the "shots fired" may have been part of memorial service when blanks are routinely fired to honor the deceased.

He said that the shooting was the first time in a 25-year career that he had to use his weapon.

The New York Times reports that an eyewitness refutes the military's version of what happened -- that it was Munley who took down Hasan. The newspaper cites the eyewitenss as saying Munley was shot by Hasan, went down, and Hasan turned away. Todd arrived at the scene, the Times adds, saw Hasan fumbling with his weapon, and shot and handcuffed cuffed him.

The military isn't commenting on the Times report.

[stillwaters6]

Does anybody remember PFC Jessica Lynch???

hmmm...Wag the Dog...the remix

[05ofem]

Wyodutch, keep your envious comments to yourself. When you can prove you have the balls to take a couple bullets or so then maybe you would have the right to your little jealous opinions.

[Noval53]

These 2 fine police officers are indeed heroes. They stopped a "jihadist terrorist" in his tracks. Without their actions it would have been much worse.

[Harden_Tar]

These two sought out and confronted this whack job terrorist while others ran the other way in terror. I cannot fathom the courage it takes to to that. It does not matter who shot him. They are both heroes and the entire country should be proud of them.

[searingtruth]

We are rarely called upon to uphold our beliefs upon threat of physical cruelty or death.

And yet we are privileged once again to witness it.
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"If evil were the seed of our society then we would have extinguished ourselves long ago.

But despite all probability and expectation it indeed appears that nothing is certain, except that humanity is good."
SearingTruth

A Future of the Brave

[jgg000015]

big bad jihadist gets whooped by 5 foot, 100lb woman

[FP1970]

There is no longer any excuse for mass immigration. Even if only 100 people a year were coming in, it would be difficult to effectively screen out terrorist supporters and sympathizers but with hundreds and thousands coming in every year, it's absolutely impossible. Anyone who still insists we need mass immigration should be viewed with extreme suspicion.

Do your representatives in congress know how you feel on this issue?

[50BMS13]

Munley was great and this must irk muslims as well as females are second class citizens and most believe they should not be educated, shouldn't drive, should have no independance, should have no say. Here is a strong "western" woman that took one of theirs down. Way to go Kimberly!

[wyodutch]

Let's not get carried away here with hero-worship. She simply did what she was paid to do... no more, no less.

[hankvreeland]

So tell me why the people in congress can't do what they are paid to do instead of developing schemes to buy their re-election? Thank you Sergeant Munley, please ignore this jerk.

[50BMS13]

Kimberly Munley is a hero. She could have hid behind a wall and wait for back up. She decided to engage which put her life in danger to the extreme and this is above and beyond the call of duty. Great woman. Wish I knew her better. Hang in there kimberley!

[clarencebev]

Good people do good things!

Thank her for everything she is.

There should be a documentary made of simulating what she did.

We could all learn from her bravery and sacrifice.

Just think of all the lives she saved.

[edgy44]

Bless the Lord, I love seeing her up and smiling! I hope they remove the organs from the dirt-bag who shot her so other may live.

[50BMS13]

edgy44
indeed!

[SS_433]

Have you hugged a cop today?