Flags and flowers are shown in front of the apartment, upper right, where Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan lived outside of Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, Monday, Nov. 9, 2009. Hasan is suspected of opening fire on fellow soldiers …
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Tenn. community buries Ft. Hood soldier
Soldier killed during Ft. Hood mass shooting
Updated: Wednesday, 18 Nov 2009, 2:50 PM CST
Published : Wednesday, 18 Nov 2009, 2:47 PM CST
MOUNTAIN CITY, Tenn. (AP) - About 200 family and friends gathered on a cold windy cemetery hillside in a tiny northeast Tennessee community to bury Army Spc. Fred Greene, one of 13 soldiers killed in the massacre at Fort Hood.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates sat behind the 29-year-old combat engineer's wife, daughters and parents as a chaplain and a company commander read a graveside service near Mountain City on Wednesday.
It was followed by a 21-gun salute and the playing of taps by a lone bugler, next to the rural Baptist church where Greene once sung in the choir.
High school friend Banian Banner said Greene "tried to do what he was supposed to do for his country."
Greene joined the military in 2008 in hopes of building a better life for his family outside this hardscrabble community. He was expecting to be sent to Afghanistan.
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