Dennis E. Webster

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  The several dozen veterans who gathered at the Ridgefield Park Elks Lodge also received a first-hand description of the scene at Fort Hood in the aftermath of Thursday's shooting from Dennis E. Webster, national executive director of the 1st Cavalry Division Association. He happened to be on the Fort Hood campus during the attack.
  
  Webster, a 30-year Army veteran who served in the Persian Gulf war, knows Fort Hood well. Before retiring in 2002, he was the command sergeant major there, and he still lives nearby.
  
  He said he was on his way to the souvenir shop in the museum at the military base Thursday to get something for an upcoming Veterans Day speaker, and had to pull over several times as military police vehicles passed by with lights flashing and sirens blaring.
  
  Once at the museum, word came through that the base was in a lockdown, and Webster was stuck there for the next six hours. He and others in the museum kept up on the developments from telephone calls that came in to the museum curator, from streaming video on a computer, and from TV reports. The museum was about a mile from the medical processing center where the shootings took place.
  
  Two of those killed and two of the wounded were members of the 1st Cavalry, Webster said. Most of the killed or injured were members of the 20th Engineers Battalion, which used to be part of the 1st Cavalry before an Army reorganization.
  
  Webster praised the quick work of soldiers on the scene who tore their uniforms into makeshift bandages and tourniquets to help the wounded. "You can always count on soldiers to do what they're supposed to," Webster said. "When the wounded got to the hospitals, most had already been treated on the ground by soldiers who were trained to do first aid. There's no telling how many more would have died if not for that."
  
  Webster said that when he was finally able to leave the base, there was a traffic jam because vehicles were being searched to make sure no weapons or anything possibly related to the shootings was being smuggled out.
  
  "I ask that you keep all those families affected by this in your prayers," Webster told the veterans.
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  The several dozen veterans who gathered at the Ridgefield Park Elks Lodge also received a first-hand description of the scene at Fort Hood in the aftermath of Thursday's shooting from Dennis E. Webster, national executive director of the 1st Cavalry Division Association. He happened to be on the Fort Hood campus during the attack.
  
  Webster, a 30-year Army veteran who served in the Persian Gulf war, knows Fort Hood well. Before retiring in 2002, he was the command sergeant major there, and he still lives nearby.
  
  He said he was on his way to the souvenir shop in the museum at the military base Thursday to get something for an upcoming Veterans Day speaker, and had to pull over several times as military police vehicles passed by with lights flashing and sirens blaring.
  
  Once at the museum, word came through that the base was in a lockdown, and Webster was stuck there for the next six hours. He and others in the museum kept up on the developments from telephone calls that came in to the museum curator, from streaming video on a computer, and from TV reports. The museum was about a mile from the medical processing center where the shootings took place.
  
  Two of those killed and two of the wounded were members of the 1st Cavalry, Webster said. Most of the killed or injured were members of the 20th Engineers Battalion, which used to be part of the 1st Cavalry before an Army reorganization.
  
  Webster praised the quick work of soldiers on the scene who tore their uniforms into makeshift bandages and tourniquets to help the wounded. "You can always count on soldiers to do what they're supposed to," Webster said. "When the wounded got to the hospitals, most had already been treated on the ground by soldiers who were trained to do first aid. There's no telling how many more would have died if not for that."
  
  Webster said that when he was finally able to leave the base, there was a traffic jam because vehicles were being searched to make sure no weapons or anything possibly related to the shootings was being smuggled out.
  
  "I ask that you keep all those families affected by this in your prayers," Webster told the veterans.

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  A memorial at Fort Hood in Texas honoring fallen soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division which lost 174 soldiers between the end of 2006 and 2008 as several of its brigades served in Iraq will soon be out of room, said Dennis Webster, executive director of the 1st Cavalry Division Association.
  
  The names of 264 fallen soldiers from the 1st Cavalry are now etched in chronological order on the granite panels of the division memorial.The names of future soldiers who die in service can be engraved on the reverse side, Webster said.
  
  Tradition usually calls for memorials to wait until after the conflict has ended.The Vietnam War memorial in Washington opened in 1982, several years after the end of the war.It wasn't until 2004 that the World War II memorial opened nearby.
  
  Webster said he would have preferred to wait before building the 1st Cavalry's Iraq and Afghanistan memorial at Fort Hood, but many members of the 1st Cavalry Division Association fought in Vietnam and recalled how they were treated poorly after their return from combat in southeast Asia.
  
  "They were adamant that the veterans of this war are treated properly," Webster said.

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  A memorial at Fort Hood in Texas honoring fallen soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division - which lost 174 soldiers between the end of 2006 and 2008 as several of its brigades served in Iraq - is filling up, said Dennis Webster, executive director of the 1st Cavalry Division Association.The names of future soldiers who die in service will have to be engraved on the back side, Webster said.
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  A memorial at Fort Hood in Texas honoring fallen soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division - which lost 174 soldiers between the end of 2006 and 2008 as several of its brigades served in Iraq - is filling up, said Dennis Webster, executive director of the 1st Cavalry Division Association.The names of future soldiers who die in service will have to be engraved on the back side, Webster said.
  
  Tradition usually calls for memorials to wait until after the conflict has ended.The Vietnam War memorial in Washington opened in 1982, several years after the end of the war.It wasn't until 2004 that the World War II memorial opened nearby.
  
  Webster said he would have preferred to wait before building the 1st Cavalry's Iraq and Afghanistan memorial at Fort Hood, but many members of the 1st Cavalry Division Association fought in Vietnam and recalled how they were treated poorly after their return from combat in southeast Asia.
  
  "They were adamant that the veterans of this war are treated properly," Webster said.

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  A memorial at Fort Hood in Texas honoring fallen soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division - which lost 174 soldiers between the end of 2006 and 2008 as several of its brigades served in Iraq - is filling up, said Dennis Webster, executive director of the 1st Cavalry Division Association.The names of future soldiers who die in service will have to be engraved on the back side, Webster said.
  
  Tradition usually calls for memorials to wait until after the conflict has ended.The Vietnam War memorial in Washington opened in 1982, several years after the end of the war.It wasn't until 2004 that the World War II memorial opened nearby.
  
  Webster said he would have preferred to wait before building the 1st Cavalry's Iraq and Afghanistan memorial at Fort Hood, but many members of the 1st Cavalry Division Association fought in Vietnam and recalled how they were treated poorly after their return from combat in southeast Asia.
  
  "They were adamant that the veterans of this war are treated properly," Webster said.

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  Dennis Webster Executive Director, 1st Cavalry Division Association
  
  E-mail: firstcav@1cda.org

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  Please read the information provided by Dennis Webster, Executive Director, 1st Cavalry Division Association in regards to my earlier email.
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  Dennis Webster
  
  Executive Director, 1st Cavalry Division Association E-mail: firstcav@1cda.org

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  several of its brigades served in Iraq,is filling up, said Dennis Webster, executive director of the 1st Cavalry Division Association.The names of future soldiers who die in service will have to be engraved on the back side, Webster said.
  
  Tradition usually calls for memorials to wait until after the conflict has ended.The Vietnam War memorial in Washington opened in 1982, several years after the end of the war.It wasn't until 2004 that the World War II memorial opened nearby.
  
  Webster said he would have preferred to wait before building the 1st Cavalry's Iraq and Afghanistan memorial at Fort Hood, but many members of the 1st Cavalry Division Association fought in Vietnam and recalled how they were treated poorly after their return from combat in southeast Asia.
  
  "They were adamant that the veterans of this war are treated properly," Webster said.

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  A memorial at Fort Hood in Texas honoring fallen soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division - which lost 174 soldiers between the end of 2006 and 2008 as several of its brigades served in Iraq - will soon be out of room, said Dennis Webster, executive director of the 1st Cavalry Division Association.
  
  The names of 264 fallen soldiers from the 1st Cavalry are now etched in chronological order on the granite panels of the division memorial.The names of future soldiers who die in service can be engraved on the reverse side, Webster said.
  
  Tradition usually calls for memorials to wait until after the conflict has ended.The Vietnam War memorial in Washington opened in 1982, several years after the end of the war.It wasn't until 2004 that the World War II memorial opened nearby.
  
  Webster said he would have preferred to wait before building the 1st Cavalry's Iraq and Afghanistan memorial at Fort Hood, but many members of the 1st Cavalry Division Association fought in Vietnam and recalled how they were treated poorly after their return from combat in southeast Asia.
  
  "They were adamant that the veterans of this war are treated properly," Webster said.

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  A memorial at Fort Hood in Texas honoring fallen soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division which lost 174 soldiers between the end of 2006 and 2008 as several of its brigades served in Iraq is filling up, said Dennis Webster, executive director of the 1st Cavalry Division Association.The names of future soldiers who die in service will have to be engraved on the back side, Webster said.
  
  Tradition usually calls for memorials to wait until after the conflict has ended.The Vietnam War memorial in Washington opened in 1982, several years after the end of the war.It wasn't until 2004 that the World War II memorial opened nearby.
  
  Webster said he would have preferred to wait before building the 1st Cavalry's Iraq and Afghanistan memorial at Fort Hood, but many members of the 1st Cavalry Division Association fought in Vietnam and recalled how they were treated poorly after their return from combat in southeast Asia.
  
  "They were adamant that the veterans of this war are treated properly," Webster said.
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  A memorial at Fort Hood in Texas honoring fallen soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division which lost 174 soldiers between the end of 2006 and 2008 as several of its brigades served in Iraq is filling up, said Dennis Webster, executive director of the 1st Cavalry Division Association.The names of future soldiers who die in service will have to be engraved on the back side, Webster said.
  
  Tradition usually calls for memorials to wait until after the conflict has ended.The Vietnam War memorial in Washington opened in 1982, several years after the end of the war.It wasn't until 2004 that the World War II memorial opened nearby.
  
  Webster said he would have preferred to wait before building the 1st Cavalry's Iraq and Afghanistan memorial at Fort Hood, but many members of the 1st Cavalry Division Association fought in Vietnam and recalled how they were treated poorly after their return from combat in southeast Asia.
  
  "They were adamant that the veterans of this war are treated properly," Webster said.

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