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Captain John Gaffaney
Gaffaney, 56, was a psychiatric nurse who worked for San Diego County, Calif., for more than 20 years and had arrived at Fort Hood the day before the shooting to prepare for a deployment to Iraq. Gaffaney, who was born in Williston, N.D., had served in the Navy and later the California National Guard as a younger man, his family said. After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, he tried to sign up again for military service. Although the Army Reserves at first declined, he got the call about two years ago asking him to rejoin, said his close friend and co-worker Stephanie Powell. “He wanted to help the boys in Iraq and Afghanistan deal with the trauma of what they were seeing,’’ Powell said. “He was an honorable man. He just wanted to serve in any way he can.’’ His family described him as an avid baseball card collector and fan of the San Diego Padres who liked to read military novels and ride his Staff Sergeant Justin M. DeCrow
DeCrow, 32, was helping train soldiers on how to help new veterans with paperwork and had felt safe on the Army post. “He was on a base,’’ his wife, Marikay DeCrow, said in a telephone interview from the couple’s home in Evans, Ga. “They should be safe there. They should be safe.’’ His wife said she wanted everyone to know what a loving man he was. The couple have a 13-year-old daughter, Kylah. “He was well loved by everyone,’’ she said through sobs. “He was a loving father and husband and he will be missed by all.’’ The couple were high school sweethearts who married in 1996. DeCrow was stationed in Korea from September 2008 to August. He left in September to go to Fort Hood.Major L. Eduardo Caraveo
Caraveo, 52, arrived in the United States in his teens from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, knowing very little English said his son, also named Eduardo Caraveo. He earned his doctorate in psychology from the University of Arizona and worked with bilingual special-needs students at Tucson-area schools before entering private practice. His son told the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson that Caraveo had arrived at Fort Hood on Wednesday and was preparing to deploy to Afghanistan. Eduardo Caraveo spoke to the newspaper from his mother’s Tucson home.Specialist Frederick Greene
Greene, 29, of Mountain City, Tenn., went by “Freddie’’ and was active at Baker’s Gap Baptist Church while he was growing up, said Glenn Arney, the church’s former superintendent and a former co-worker of Green’s. “I went to church with him, knew him all of his life. He was one of the finest boys you ever saw,’’ Arney said.
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