After learning that one victim of Thursday's mass shooting at Fort Hood in Texas, was 51-year-old Russell Seager, a nurse who worked at the VA in Milwaukee, the center is taking steps to help co-workers cope with the tragic loss.
"We've set up a grieving meeting in the auditorium here at the hospital for any of the employees who worked with Mr. Seager, to get together and simply talk about it, to try to get the grieving process started," says spokesman Brian Walker.
Walker says so-workers are stunned.
“I can’t begin to even describe how, the impact of it. We have so many employees here that do serve in the armed forces, and serve in the reserve, and it hits really close to home. It’s just a very sad, tragic incident,” Walker says.
Russell Seager was from Racine and worked both at the VA and as an instructor at Bryant and Stratton College. In an interview with WUWM before departing for Fort Hood, Seager said he joined the army a few years ago because as a psychiatrist, he wanted to help returning veterans settle back into civilian life.
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