UPDATED Friday, August 20, 2010 --- 2:30 p.m.

By ANGELA K. BROWN
Associated Press Writer

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- Nine months after 13 people were killed in shootings at Foot Hood, Texas, the Defense Department has released a report saying the military needs to be more aware of signs of potential workplace violence.

The department's final report on the shootings last November at the Army post last was released Friday. It also recommends expanding military installations' emergency response capabilities and making sure supervisors have access to soldiers' personnel records.

Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Hasan has been charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the shootings.

In October, a military judge will hear witness testimony to determine whether the case against Hasan should go to trial.

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UPDATED: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 --- 6:15 p.m.
REPORTER: Chris Woodard

A Baraboo couple is setting up a scholarship to honor a Wisconsin soldier killed in the Fort Hood shootings.

They never met but say their connection is strong.

Tom and Cheryl Hayes say they felt lucky after the Fort Hood shootings. Their family survived.

Now they're doing what they can to make sure one of those killed continues to help people for years to come.

As the terror played out at Fort Hood on November 5th Tom and Cheryl Hayes anxiously waited for good news.

Tom says, "Immediately your heart jumps right out of your skin."

Their daughter, son in law and first grandchild are stationed at the base and luckily escaped the shooting rampage unharmed.

Kiel's Amy Krueger wasn't as lucky. She was one of 13 people killed. She immediately made an impression on the Hayes family.

Tom says, "When I heard about Amy that was the connection that there was a parent that made the same call that I did that did not get relief."

Here in Baraboo, hundreds of miles away from Fort Hood and half a state away from Whitewater, the connections kept coming for the Hayes family.

Tom is a graduate of Whitewater and and like Amy majored in psychology at the school.

After a recent visit to the campus he decided to set up a scholarship in her name.

Cheryl says, "I think we had thought of the same idea of putting it in Amy's name and it just kind of happened."

Tom says, "Just the fact that she was doing something for all of us without knowing us on top of it, it really doesn't matter that we didn't know her. It just represents what's good and what's right in this country."

The Hayes did all this without ever meeting anyone from the Krueger family.

Amy's mother Jeri says, "What it means to us is keeping Amy's goals alive, allowing in a round about way Amy to keep helping others. We are in awe by the generosity that we've received throughout the whole entire tragedy."

It is a connection that will only be strengthened when both families meet for the first time in a few weeks.

Tom says, "I think it's going to be really hard meeting her. Our kids made it fine and hers didn't."

The Hayes say their number one goal here is to keep this all about Krueger and make sure her memory lives on.

The Amy Krueger Memorial Scholarship will provide 500 dollars each year to a UW-Whitewater Psychology Major with a preference given to a student in the Armed forces.

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UPDATED Friday, December 25, 2009 --- 8:00 p.m.

KIEL, Wis. (AP) — A Baraboo couple has established a scholarship honoring a Wisconsin soldier killed in the Nov. 5 Fort Hood shootings.

Tom and Cheryl Hayes never met Staff Sgt. Amy Krueger or her family. But they felt a special connection when they found out she'd been studying psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

Tom Hayes is a psychologist from UW-Whitewater. He says he'd been meaning to establish a scholarship, and Krueger's death spurred him to action.

The Sheboygan Press says the Amy Krueger Memorial Scholarship will provide $500 each year to a UW-Whitewater psychology major, with preference given to a student in the Armed Forces.

Jeri Krueger says the Hayes are "wonderful, wonderful people" for keeping her daughter's memory alive.

Information from:
The Sheboygan Press
http://www.sheboygan-press.com

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UPDATED Monday, November 16, 2009 --- 8:00 a.m.

WONEWOC, Wis. (AP) -- The funeral for the second Wisconsin soldier killed in the Fort Hood, Texas, shooting spree will be held Monday.

The funeral for Army Reserve Capt. Russell Seager of Racine will be held at 3 p.m. Monday at the Wonewoc Center School in Wonewoc.

The funeral and burial are planned in Wonewoc because Seager is a native of the area.

Funeral services for Army Reserve Staff Sgt. Amy Krueger were held Saturday at the high school gym in Kiel. Krueger and Seager were among 13 killed in the Nov. 5 shooting.

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UPDATED Sunday, November 15, 2009 --- 11:00 a.m.
UPDATED Saturday, November 14, 2009 --- 9:30 a.m.

ARMY RESERVE CAPT. RUSSELL SEAGER:

Funeral service with full Military honors will be held 3:00 PM Monday November 16, 2009 in the Wonewoc Center High School, Wonewoc, WI; with Chaplin (Major) Melinda Riley officiating. Burial will be in Pine Eden Cemetery. Friends may call Monday from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM in the Wonewoc Center High School. Memorials in honor of Captain Russell Seager may be made to Marquette University College of Nursing or the VA Mental Health Division to care for the Veterans he severed

Thompson Funeral Home is assisting the family.

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WONEWOC, Wis. (AP) — The funeral for the second Wisconsin soldier killed in the Fort Hood, Texas, shooting rampage will be Monday.

Steve Mitchell, director of Thompson Funeral Home in Wonewoc, says on Friday evening the funeral for Army Reserve Capt. Russell Seager of Racine will be at 3 p.m. Monday at the Wonewoc Center School in Wonewoc.

The funeral and burial are planned in Wonewoc because Seager, 51, is a native of the area, Mitchell said.

Funeral services for Army Reserve Staff Sgt. Amy Krueger are Saturday at the high school gym in Kiel.

The 29-year-old Krueger and Seager were among 13 killed in the Nov. 5 shooting. Authorities say Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan fired off more than 100 rounds at a soldier processing center before police shot him in the torso.

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UPDATED Thursday, November 12, 2009 --- 7:40 a.m.

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- A Milwaukee college is hosting a candlelight vigil Thursday to honor and remember Russell Seager of Racine -- one of the 13 soldiers killed in the Fort Hood, Texas, shooting.

Seager began teaching at Bryant & Stratton College in May 2005 in the medical assistant and nursing programs.

He was at Fort Hood as a captain in the U.S. Army Reserves' Madison-based 467th Medical Command Detachment that was being deployed to Afghanistan when he and 12 other soldiers were gunned down a week ago at a processing center.

The candlelight vigil begins at 5 p.m. at the Bryant & Stratton downtown campus.

The school says it will rename a medical assistant classroom lab to honor Seager and provide a new scholarship in his name as a tribute to him.

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UPDATED Friday, November 6, 2009 --- 1:05 p.m.

(AP) -- The uncle of a Wisconsin soldier says his nephew is among the soldiers killed in the Fort Hood shootings.

The death raises Wisconsin's toll to two soldiers killed and two others injured.

Larry Seager of Mauston says his niece told him Friday morning that 51-year-old Russell Seager of Racine died.

He says his nephew joined the Army a few years back because he was a psychiatrist who wanted to help returning veterans adapt back to civilian life. He says he still can't believe the news.

Also killed was 29-year-old Amy Krueger of Kiel.

The injured included 23-year-old Army Reserve Spc. Grant Moxon of Lodi and 19-year-old Amber Bahr of Random Lake.

The shooting at the Texas base Thursday left 13 dead and 30 injured. The suspect was hospitalized Friday in a coma.

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UPDATED Friday, November 13, 2009 --- 3:00 p.m.

STAFF SGT. AMY KRUEGER:

KIEL, Wis. (AP) -- Friends and family are remembering a Wisconsin soldier killed in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood as a patriotic and fun young woman.

Dozens of people showed up at Kiel High School for the visitation for Staff Sgt. Amy Krueger on Friday afternoon.

Many wiped away tears as they slowly filed past her flag-draped casket in the high school gymnasium.

High school classmate Jason Seehaver says Krueger was a good athlete who knew how to have a good time. He laughed as he recalled how she loved singing karaoke, especially songs by rapper Eminem.

Krueger was a 29-year-old mental health specialist who signed up for the military after the terrorist attacks of 2001.

She and 12 others were killed during last week's shooting rampage that also injured 29.

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UPDATED Friday, November 13, 2009 --- 8:15 a.m.

KIEL, Wis. (AP) -- Hundreds are expected to attend a visitation Friday for a Wisconsin soldier killed during last week's shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas.

The visitation for Sgt. Amy Krueger starts at 2 p.m. at Kiel High School. A funeral service and burial will follow on Saturday.

Krueger was killed in a shooting rampage by an Army major that left 13 dead and 29 wounded.

She was a member of the U.S. Army Reserves' 467th Medical Command Detachment, a Madison-based unit that helps soldiers cope with combat stress. The unit was at Fort Hood for training before a scheduled deployment to Afghanistan.

Krueger was a 29-year-old mental health specialist who signed up for the military after the terrorist attacks of 2001.

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UPDATED Tuesday, November 10, 2009 --- 1:17 p.m.

KIEL, Wis. (AP) -- The funeral for the eastern Wisconsin soldier killed in the Fort Hood, Texas, shooting will be Saturday at the high school gym in Kiel.

Jean Detroye of Meiselwitz-Vollstedt Funeral Home said Tuesday the service for Army Reserve Staff Sgt. Amy Krueger will start at 1 p.m. She says a visitation is planned at the gym Friday.

The 29-year-old Krueger was among 13 killed in last Thursday's shooting. Authorities say Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan fired off more than 100 rounds at a soldier processing center before police shot him in the torso.

Also killed in the rampage was Army Reserve Capt. Russell Seager of Racine.

Detroye says Krueger's body was flown to an airport in Milwaukee on Tuesday and her parents were there to accompany the remains home to Kiel.

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UPDATED Monday, November 9, 2009 --- 7:55 a.m.

KIEL, Wis. (AP) -- Several hundred residents of a small Wisconsin community gathered Sunday night to pay tribute to a hometown soldier who was one of 13 people killed last week in an assault at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas.

The vigil for Army Staff Sgt. Amy Krueger at Veterans Park in Kiel was lit by the candles many held high in honor of the 29-year-old soldier who enlisted in the service following the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Krueger was receiving final training at Fort Hood before her deployment to Afghanistan in December.

Rev. David Mercer of St. Peter's United Church of Christ, which Krueger attended, told the crowd that the young soldier was taken "in a random senseless act of transgression."

About 10 of Krueger's young cousins sang "Amazing Grace" near the end of the vigil, bringing tears to many in the crowd.

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UPDATED Friday, November 6, 2009 --- 11:30 a.m.

KIEL, Wis. (AP) -- A Wisconsin mother says her 29-year-old daughter is among the soldiers killed in the Fort Hood, Texas shootings.

Jeri Krueger of Kiel told the Herald Times Reporter of Manitowoc that she was informed early Friday of daughter Amy Krueger's death.

The mother says her daughter was an Army sergeant with the Madison-based 467th Medical Detachment and had arrived at Fort Hood on Tuesday. She was scheduled to be sent to Afghanistan in December.

Kiel High School Principal Dario Talerico told The Associated Press that Krueger graduated from the school in 1998 and was proud to serve her country. He says she had spoken at least once to Kiel elementary school students about her career.

Jeri Krueger says her daughter joined the Army shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

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