10 years ago today, a Fort Hood mass shooting changed this soldier's life
On a Friday night in October, Patrick Zeigler lay in a tattoo shop in Daytona Beach. His shirt off and chest bare, he braced as the tattoo gun pierced his skin.He had mulled the design for several months — the date “5NOV09,” surrounded by a circle of thirteen stars, one for every person killed in the massacre 10 years ago at Fort Hood, Texas.Zeigler timed the appointment just so, to give the tattoo enough time to heal before the 10th anniversary of the shooting […]
